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Latest overpayment figures bring total number falling foul of ‘cliff-edge’ rules on earnings to 144,000More than 9,000 unpaid carers looking after ill and disabled loved ones have become the latest to be hit with carer’s allowance overpayment debts in …
Experts say planned cuts will deliver series of ‘painful income shocks’ for manySome disabled people could lose nearly £10,000 a year in benefits by the end of the decade under Labour’s controversial disability benefits reforms that will target the liv…
Significant doubts aired at Westminster meeting with Liz Kendall attended by about 100 MPsScores of Labour MPs have voiced significant doubts about the government’s welfare changes in a tense meeting with the work and pensions secretary.At a private me…
All the fight seems to have gone out of the Tory leader, but mood on Labour’s backbenches is frosty over benefit cutsIt’s come to something when the most striking sign of activity on the Conservative frontbench at prime minister’s questions is Chris Ph…
Richard Burgon says PM’s failure to defend new Pip eligibility rules at PMQs shows why ‘cruel’ plans should be dropped. This live blog is closedScores of Labour MPs raise concerns over welfare changesLast night, to back up its analysis of the disabilit…
Prime minister defends changes to welfare system but Labour MPs struggle to digest plans for disability payments The rising benefits bill is “devastating for public finances” and has “wreaked a terrible human cost”, Keir Starmer has said as he defended…
Disability charities call foul as welfare secretary buries austerity-like news under earnest talk of reformLiz Kendall unveils UK benefits cuts set to leave many sick and disabled worse offThe disability benefit reforms statement issued by the welfare …
Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary, laid out plans for £5bn savings but faces rebellion from some Labour MPsUp to 1.2 million people with disabilities will lose thousands of pounds under the government’s welfare overhaul, experts have said, a…
Paralympian says toxic rhetoric around welfare changes has stirred up hatred against disabled people in UK Toxic rhetoric around benefit cuts has stirred up hatred against disabled people, Tanni Grey-Thompson has said, as campaigners called the governm…
Welfare secretary announces changes aimed at cutting bill by up to £5bn in face of opposition from Labour MPsUK politics live – latest updatesLiz Kendall, the welfare secretary, has faced down angry Labour MPs to unveil drastic cuts to the UK’s benefit…