Two hundred thousand disabled people will each lose almost £3,000 a year as a result of sweeping cuts to disability benefits, according to Labour analysis.
Reforms to the personal independence payment (PIP) will see 200,000 disabled people taken out of the system altogether. And a further 400,000 people will see their weekly payments fall from the enhanced £82 to the standard £55 – costing them over £1,400 a year.
The reform will mean that from next year people will only be awarded one point, instead of two, if they need aid to help them use the toilet or get dressed – resulting in lower or no payments.
The sweeping cuts to disability benefits are part of George Osborne’s plans to save £4bn by the end of the current parliament. Disability charities have called the cuts ‘devastating’ and will hit out at George Osborne this week when he includes the savings in his budget.
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