On Tuesday the welfare secretary, Liz Kendall, set out her plans to save lots of £5bn from the federal government’s welfare invoice. The present scenario is unsustainable, the federal government says. With the numbers of individuals claiming incapacity advantages hovering, it was time for a fairer system, she mentioned.
For a lot of disabled folks, who’ve felt the results of successive governments’ makes an attempt to reform the welfare system, it was a irritating second. The incapacity campaigner, musician and actor Mik Scarlet tells Helen Pidd concerning the actuality of navigating the advantages system, and why he worries concerning the growing nastiness of the dialog round advantages and incapacity.
Patrick Butler, the Guardian’s social coverage editor, has been taking a look at Labour’s new proposals. He explains what has modified and why the response of charities and Labour backbenchers to the modifications has been so robust.
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