1 million fewer people to achieve health services as part of the British social welfare reform

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Around 1 million people will be up to date in the context of social reforms that Sir Keir Starrer government will be up to date on the course for a showdown with Labor MP for a showdown with Labor MP.

The plans that are presented before the law on Great Britain, which are to be presented on Tuesday by work and pension secretary Liz Kendall, save a saving of 5 billion GBP per year, include scaling of “personal independence payments” or PIP, which cannot work to cover additional costs for people who cannot work due to disability or illness.

Among the reforms, PIP would deny many people with mental illnesses, while others would reduce the people who were informed about the plans with some physical and psychiatric diseases to a lower level.

These changes will require a vote in the lower house, said people, and Sarmler and his ministers stated against an increasing choir of MPs from Backbench, who protest against the measures and increase the possibility of the largest rebellion to date.

Dozens of Labor MPs have expressed serious concerns about the withdrawal or reduction of the needy, and several ministers have set up objections to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starrer last week Cabinet session.

But rigid and Kendall, who will present their green paper on Tuesday, are determined to contain the benefit expenditure of Britain, from which they say they sap and undermine growth.

Approx. 4 million to 64-year-olds one of 10 prudent either either Disability or inability toAfter 2.8 million in 2019, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

More than half of this increase results from an increase in demands in connection with mental health or behavioral conditions.

Kendall defended her upcoming reforms on Monday and said: “There will always be people who cannot work because of the severity of their illness. . . These people will always be protected. “

Rachael Maskell, a former member of the Labor Shadow cabinet, said that the attempts by ministers to calm down members with the proposed scale of the cuts are “quite unsuitable”: “Some of us are wondering how they may be able to square this circle.”

“If you result in draconian measures, you still have to go through the right advice and there is everything you can play for,” she added.

Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, would like to use the cuts to repair a hole in public finances caused by slow growth and rising credit costs.

According to government officials, the fiscal rules of 9.9 billion GBP of the Reeves squad room in October budget were largely wiped out. The rules say that the current expenses have to be covered by tax revenue by 2029-30.

By the end of the forecast period, around 1 million fewer people will receive health -related services, mainly by changes to the admission criteria for new claims, but also by new ratings of existing cases, according to the people who have been informed about the plan.

There will also be a drastic overhaul of the system for incapacity advantages, whereby the assessment of the ability to work determines who is entitled for additional support, which are expected to be completely scrapped.

Kendall is also increased the highest support of the inability, which delivers additional 416 GBP per month, the basis for people who are unemployed as a universal loan, according to people who have been informed on the go.

It is not expected that the compensation is cost -neutral, with the Ministry of Finance causing more savings by reducing the highest rate of support for inability than pumping an increase in universal loans.

Earlier media reports claimed that Kendall had planned to freeze the services so that they would not increase with inflation in order to probably increase the Ministry of Finance.

However, some Labor MPs believe that freezing was never a serious idea. A high -ranking MP said it was a tactic to “make it look like they had made concessions and the actual cuts are not that bad”.

An official of the Ministry of Finance said the proposal was never taken seriously in the department.

Labor Whips took hard disciplinary measures against the MEPs of rebels last summer after they voted against social policy, and a handful was still suspended.

Another high -ranking MP said that Backbencher went through intensive emotions: “There is an anxious mix of fear of whip with a feeling of fear of the consequences for your voters.”