Hundreds of thousands seriously ill and disabled people will be “invisible” and cut adrift a local support services as a result of the government’s £ 5BN program of disability benefit cuts, experts warned.
Asking to have a personal freedom of payment (pip) or incapacity benefits will not lose a “marketing work” with local plans and NHS in practice.
It was “effective to delete some of the most vulnerable people” from the system – including these with life-limiting diseases including cancer, many sclerosis and lung conditions to deliver preventive services
More than 230,000 disabled people will lose access to the pip and incapacity element of the universal credit in effects of changes, losing at least £ 8,100 in the year, policy in practice estimates in the briefing. Almost 600,000 more than one who does not say universal credit will lose or not to qualify for the future to the pip.
On the direct financial hit, disabled people will struggle for visibility in the local care systems to use disability benefit awards awards deploy support and protection, from housing and plan tax relief to debt poverty.
Loss of benefits means to lose the previous state of the plan for housing look lists and to deprive the previous state of the tion, leaving them to “greater risk of long tape, leaving them to” greater risk of prolonged homeless “, and briefing.
In the invisibility of the local care systems severely ill people who manage to live independently but anyone could not access the vice, benefit connected to support the “one of the most contained consequences” changes, he says.
“Up to now, the benefits of the system always recognized and confirmed them too badly to work. This will change with these reformation with disorder consequence of disease when they do not get away,” he does not go away “does not add.
It says the government does not listen to the people whose lives will be “supendendum” by measurements or consulting options in the pulsate-in the effects of the benefit cuts in NHS Services and design Social care and housing departments.
Deven Ghelani, Director of Policy in use, “for the first time, the sick and badly request to be invisible in the benefits of the system and the cost of savings [to the Treasury] They are likely to be reduced to the cost of support for the most vulnerable transit for other agencies. “
More than 3 million UK houses will hit the changes in disability and incapacity benefits starting from the next year when Some losing £ 10,000 annually. 250,000 people estimates the estimates between 50,000 boys in poverty in poverty and will result.
Changes to Pip, announced in green paper last month, refocus eligibility in the request with the highest needs of the daily living support. I will be a result of 800,000 current and future demands losing an average of £ 4.500 at the end of the decade.
Ministers are the changes are essential overhaul a “fractured blessing system” as a negative job and skills to accept the ill and disabled people can work. But they have wrestle to convince MPs and cuts are simply a crude budget savings intended to worst-off.
In Work Select Committee Chair of the Common Work and Select Committee, Debbe Abraham, he cuts rural creating a greater ill-health in the UK’s poorest families and pushing many disabled people more a job market.
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Abraham says changes with trigris. “Met woman with the door-knocking in my constituency whose daughter has multiple waist and I could cook there. He was anxious daughter lose pip. It’s a huge anxiety,” he said.
I called the government for delay changes to the proper pariamentary ballot of all aspects of green paper, including changes to the Pip eligibility, which ministers press not to be used to consultation.
Commons Work and Pensions Committee and Call Department for Work and Pensions of Ministers to As To His disability cuts mini-inquiryDue to the to be held in the next few weeks. It will focus on the impact of changes in the claimant health, labor and poverty.
Abraham in MP to the Old East and Saddleworth, said he said, the deep to repeat the cuts across the pariamentary labor part. “I do not want to use the tongue of the defection. But there are deep out. To fair, DWP ministers in the listening mode, but this is not an issue that’s going.”
A DWP loquitson said: “We ought to fix our broken benefits system so it is very beautiful in the taxpayer, supports them, who can work as employment and protects who can not be.”
He added: “Our approach is always underlined by the fundamental principle of people with dignity and respect, that is why we continue to deliver social security system for those who will not be able to work.”