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The government of Sir Keir Starmer has unveiled reforms of invalidity services which, according to them, will save more than 5 billion pounds sterling per year by the end of the decade, in a decision which is likely to rekindle the greatest rebellion of rear ban in its Prime Minister.
The plans, presented by the British secretary of work and pensions, Liz Kendall on Tuesday, would reduce the invalidity and inability services to hundreds of thousands of people by the 2029-30 exercise.
The Labor government, which seeks to fill a tax gap in its plans, maintains that without reformThe well-being costs of Great Britain will be in balloon and a generation of young risks lacking in work incentives.
But the proposals, described in advisory green paper, have already triggered a generalized reaction inside WorkMPs and voters saying that the government should not aim for the poorest in society.
The most important changes in the system concern the tightening of eligibility rules for personal independence payments, the main form of invalidity service. It would make people suffering from people with mental health problems and the less serious physical difficulties to receive support.
The work seeks to find billions of savings pounds in front of the chancellor Rachel Reeves“The Printemps Declaration of March 26, due to the recent projections of the Card of the independent budget for the United Kingdom, which indicated that the government’s tax room for the maneuver is shrinking.
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