Joshua lasted
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The group of labor deputies wrote to the secretary of work and pensions Liz Kendall
The government has a “moral duty” to help patients and people with long-term disabled to work if they can, said labor deputies, as ministers planned to reform well-being.
The working group Get Britain of the 36 labor deputies said that the country was faced with “harsh choice” to overcome a “crisis in economic inactivity”, in a work letter and pension secretary Liz Kendall.
The letter occurs before Kendall should indicate the changes in the social protection system, aimed at reducing the bill of benefits.
The Chancellor has reserved several billion pounds of reduction in spending in the event of social protection and other government services before the spring press release.
There is a discomfort on the party level, with the Labor MP Rachael Maskell warning against the “draconian cups” who risk “pushing disabled people in poverty”.
Maskell told the BBC that she had taken “deep concern” “deep concern” among labor deputies.
She said: “I look in the past what work has done in this space and I believe that we can keep our values, make sure that we help people and do not harm people.”
In a letter to Chancellor Rachel Reeves, a dozen charitable organizations argued that there was “little evidence suggesting that the reduction in services increases the results of the employment”.
C charitable organizations – including the rights to people with disabilities in the United Kingdom, the advice, the scope and the meaning of citizens – have urged Reeves to “again repaint the cuts in disability benefits”.
They said: “There are disabled people without work who want to work given good support. And for some disabled people, work is not appropriate.
“Social protection changes should start here. Not with cuts.”
But the ministers are concerned about the sharp increase in the number of people who claim services from the cocovio pandemic and the cost for the taxpayer.
In January, 9.3 million people aged 16 to 64 in the United Kingdom were economically inactive – an increase of 713,000 from the pandemic.
The Ministry of Labor and Pensions claims that some 2.8 million people are economically inactive due to long -term disease.
Last year, the government spent 65 billion pounds sterling for sickness benefits and this figure should increase by tens of billions before the next general elections.
Some of the social protection system reforms have already been announced and include plans to use 1,000 work coaches to help long -term unemployed at work.
In his letter, the working group Get Britian said that the cost of the lack of work among long-term patients and the disabled “goes far beyond economic necessity”.
“It’s a moral duty,” said the letter.
The letter indicates that the group – most of whom were elected for the first time in the general elections of last July – was trained to “put pressure for a fundamental change in our social protection system to support work”.
“We believe that the reform of the broken system is not only necessary, but also a really progressive endivour,” said the letter.
On Sunday, the Minister of the Cabinet, Pat McFadden, said that the social protection system was “not just for the taxpayer” because he confirmed that changes in disease services would soon be revealed.
“We do not believe that it is good that if someone can work with a little support, he is left to live a life on the advantages,” McFadden told the BBC program with Laura Kuensberg.
He said 2.8 million people were currently in long -term illness and added that if the government did not act, the level would increase to more than four million.
“We cannot allow this to happen,” he said.
Addressing Sky News on Sunday, the conservative secretary of the Shadow House, Chris Philp, said that too many people were signed.
He said the system of benefits should be more difficult and suggested that it was too easy for people to get social benefits.
“I think it’s gone far too far and it costs us billions and billions of pounds a year,” he said.
