The secretary of work and pensions established plans to “repair the broken services system” and tackle “perverse incentives” that push people to depend on well-being.
Liz Kendall’s announcement is designed to reduce sickness and disability benefits – which has increased considerably in recent years and is expected to reach 70 billion pounds Sterling per year by the end of the decade.
The measures should reduce these expenses by more than 5 billion pounds sterling per year by 2029-30.
However, there is something a little strange in the fact that we do not obtain any ventilation from which of these social protection policies will generate the economy in cash.
The government has attributed the lack of figures to the need for its official independent forecastist, The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to take their eyes before next week’s spring declaration.
The verdict of the OBR will have an importance because there are uncertainties as to the quantity of money you will be saved, given for example the significant incentive which existed now to claim the most serious disabilities of the personal independence payment system (PIPS).
But the government will already have a clear idea of the number of people affected and how much.
These plans are more intended to ensure that budgetary numbers add up that the fundamental reform of well-being.
The main thing is that around one million applicants with a range of less serious problems will lose thousands of books compared to next November.
It reflects the argument that spending on social benefits are “unsustainable” and puts the entire social protection system in danger.
While in universal credit economies, a large part of the impact is generated by changes for future applicants, which increases the age of eligibility to 22 years and half reduced health payment, this is not the case for PIPs.
PIP payments are determined by a questionnaire on your daily life, such as your ability to prepare and eat food, wash and dress or communicate and read.
Everyone is noted on a scale of zero – without difficulty – at 12 – for the most serious – by a health professional.
Your payment depends on the total score in all areas.
The proposed change is that people will have to mark at least four on an element, indicating a more serious handicap in an area. While applicants can be qualified for support with a score that could describe less serious difficulties (those and two) in a wide range of activities.
For example, need help or a device to speak or hear the number of two points, while needing a support to express or understand complex verbal information that counts at four points.
And need help to wash your hair, or your body under the size, it would be assigned two points, but need help to wash between shoulders and the size would be equivalent to four points.
The changes announced aim to ward off the PIP payments of these people from November 2026.
The government knows how much and who it is. For the moment, until the spring declaration next week, we can deduce that there are about a million people who will lose their total of £ 70 per week or £ 3,500 per year.
This is a deposit on the reform of social protection, and a reduction in much greater scorral expenses to help the chancellor figures, and therefore avoid tax increases or miss its non -negotiable borrowing limits.
