How Personal Independence Payments (Pip) and other health-related benefits could change under government plans. -
UK ministers to drop plan to freeze key disability benefit
Decision on personal independence payments comes ahead of government paper setting out wider reforms on TuesdayFinancial Times - 2d -
Is The Government Backing Down Over Benefits?
Plans to freeze some disability benefits could be abandoned.BBC News - 2d -
Tensions grow over UK government plan to cut welfare payments
Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall prepares to slash spending on health-related benefitsFinancial Times - 1d -
What are the Pip and universal credit changes and who is affected?
The government says changes to the welfare system will save £5bn and get people into work.BBC News - 2h -
Plan to freeze key disability benefit may be dropped
Many usually loyal Labour MPs had voiced strong opposition to the idea of not increasing PIP in line with inflation, as part of expected welfare cuts.BBC News - 2d -
Up to 1.2m people could lose between £4,200 and £6,300 per year from changes to Pip, Resolution Foundation says -UK politics live
Work and pensions secretary says Benefits crackdown will save £5bn by 2030 but disability charities say cuts are ‘immoral’. Q: Why have you changed your mind on this? . Badenoch says she has not ...The Guardian - 2h -
1mn fewer people to secure health benefits under UK welfare reform
Government measures require a Commons vote that could provoke a rebellion by Labour MPsFinancial Times - 1d -
Under-22s to be excluded from incapacity benefits
The move comes as part of an overhaul of the welfare system as the UK's benefits bill rises.BBC News - 1h -
Some PIP recipients may lose out under welfare cuts
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall will set out reforms to the benefits system on Tuesday afternoon.BBC News - 15h
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