Labour U-Turns on Benefit Reforms With Softened PIP Rules – Guido Fawkes

Labour U-Turns on Benefit Reforms With Softened PIP Rules

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Just a day after Guido published analysis showing Starmer’s U-turns could create a reverse black hole of £35 billion Labour is coming back for more. Soft on benefits…

The government is briefing that the PIP changes will be partially reversed by softening the requirement to score at four points in one category to get the benefit. Estimates say 13% of those who face having their benefits cut will claw them back in that case. Only 16% of PIP claimants were projected to face theirs cut anyway. And that U-turn is just the start…

Employment minister Alison McGovern has concurrently told The Guardian that JobCentres will no longer ask able claimants to take “any job” while promising those “scared or worried” about PIP cuts that they will be supplemented by billions in “additional support.” What was the point then…

Around 160 Labour MPs are privately threatening rebellion over Kendall’s benefit changes in upcoming votes. Downing Street pipping them to the post…