3 w. ago Welsh minister says he 'absolutely' could not live on £70 a week some will get after benefit reforms

The plans to get more people back to work would see lower Universal Credit (UC) for new claimants, stricter tests for Personal Independence Payments (PIP) and reduced incapacity benefits for under 22-year-olds

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4 w. ago Minister defending Labour’s £5bn benefits cuts admits he couldn’t live on £70 a week

Hitting back at left-wing Labour critics of the government, Torsten Bell accused them of ‘defending a Tory system’

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4 w. ago Starmer defends ‘moral’ benefits cuts plan after Diane Abbott says most vulnerable are being used to balance books – UK politics live

Veteran Labour MP says ‘there is nothing moral’ about government plan to cut benefitsLast night, to back up its analysis of the disability cuts, the Institute for Fiscal Studies published two charts illustrating aspects of the changes.This one shows how the £5bn cuts announced yesterday compare in scale to previous benefit cuts, listed here in order of how big they were, in current prices. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago I could not live on £70 a week in benefits, says 'hypocrite' Labour minister as he defends Starmer cuts

Torsten Bell, the pensions minister, said he had a 'mortgage to pay' as he explained why he thought he could not live on that amount.

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4 w. ago Sickness benefits bill ‘devastating’, Keir Starmer says as he defends £5billion cut to welfare

The Government announced a raft of welfare measures it says will help bring more people back into jobs, and which will save billions of pounds

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4 w. ago Benefits cuts – live: Million to lose PIP as Starmer defends reforms ‘plunging families into crisis’

Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall unveiled plans on Tuesday to slash welfare bill by £5bn in benefits overhaul

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4 w. ago Benefits cuts – live: Million to miss out on PIP as Starmer defends reforms ‘plunging families into crisis’

Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall unveiled plans on Tuesday to slash welfare bill by £5bn in benefits overhaul

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4 w. ago DWP benefits cuts explained and defended by Sir Keir Starmer

The announcement was met with criticism from Labour backbenchers, unions and charities

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