Tensions grow over the Government Plan of the United Kingdom to reduce the payment of well -being

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The tensions within the Labor Party are growing on Monday due to a reduction in the welfare, because LiZ Kendall Minister LiZ Kendall has been prepared to detect plans to reduce state spending on health benefits.

Dozens of working MPs expressed concern about withdrawing or reducing support to those who need, and several Ministers expressed concern with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at last week’s cabinet meeting.

Andy BurnhamThe mayor of Veliki Manchester said he was concerned about the change in support and eligibility for benefits, saying that he would “capture too many people in poverty.”

“There is no case in any scenario to reduce support available to people with disabilities who are unable to work,” he wrote in The Times.

Labor Veterans MP Diane Abbott said on Monday that “reducing money for people with disabilities is not a matter of work.” “When people say that it is on the benefits of a life choice, do they know what residential accommodation they are in in these people.

Health Minister Wes Streeting said on Sunday that the UK was “Together of Diagnosing” Mental Health While preparing the ground for reforms, which is expected to reduce support for people with psychiatric problems.

Streeting said to BBC: “Mental well -being, illness, it’s a spectrum and I think there is definitely too much diagnosis, but there is [also] Too many people written off. “

Downing Street held a series of briefing last week with Labor MPs to try to stifle concern and frustration due to a decrease, which should be announced on Tuesday, but many members are still deeply embarrassed.

The government was expected to freeze the level The benefits of disabilitywhich are called the payment of personal independence, so they have not increased in accordance with inflation.

But the government gave up moves over the weekend. Louise Murphy, from the resolution Foundation, said that perennial freezing in PIP prices would save £ 600 million in £ 2026-7, increasing to £ 3.3 billion by 2029-30, given that the applicant’s appearance is.

Kendall is also expected to reduce the highest level of support for incompetence – which provides an additional £ 416 per month – at the same time increasing the basic support rate of people who are out of work, known as Universal Credit, according to the people who met on the move.

Experts have long argued that low levels of unemployed fees have encouraged more people with fundamental health conditions that have requested additional incompetence and benefits for disability, because it is difficult to live at any time.

However, the narrowing of the gap in a costly neutral way would mean great decrease in the support of disabled people and the sick, in order to increase payments to a higher number of basic rates.

Much higher savings could be achieved by restricting the eligibility for Pips, a move that is expected to appear in Kendall’s plan. People who claim that the support of disability for mental health is likely to be the most affected.

Payments are expected to be denied about 1 million people, including those with mental health states and those struggling with washing, eating and dressing. People who need the hearing an apparatus are expected to fall under the new threshold and could lose payment.