- NEW: Internal DWP figures show 700,000 families *already* in poverty are forecast to be hit by planned disability benefit cuts That's on top of the 250k+ who are predicted to be newly pushed into poverty by the changes By me, for the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
May 7, 2025 14:10
- FOI figures show that the DWP estimates 3.2m families will lose out under the plans in 2029/2030, about three years after the cuts take effect Of those, 700k will be families already in relative poverty, when taking housing costs into account www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- The figures do not take into account the DWP’s planned £1bn investment in disability employment support schemes - as neither the DWP nor the OBR has yet published any estimate of how many disabled people will find work through these schemes
- The proposed Pip “four-point rule” alone is forecast to hit 250,000 families already in poverty by 2030, including 50,000 with children, according to DWP responses to written parliamentary questions. The families will lose out on £4,500 a year on average. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- The 700,000 figure excludes people losing Carer's Allowance due to the cuts There will be a rise in the main rate of UC, which the DWP expects 2.4 million families in poverty to benefit from, though it will be mostly non-disabled families who gain £400 a year above inflation in 2029/30
- If only we had a Labour government. Oh, hang on.....
- @goodlawproject.org Not to mention the outrageous gaslighting that @teamlabouruk.bsky.social want to cut PIP because of the “moral issue” of young people out of work - PIP IS NOT AN OUT-OF-WORK BENEFIT. Disabled people who can work BECAUSE of PIP will be forced out of work.
- And because PIP is a gateway benefit, they will also lose their disabled railcards, Motability lease cars etc; things that enable them to travel to work. Labour aren’t “helping” ANY disabled people “back to work” or even to stay in work. This is a cull, and how can it be lawful, let alone “moral”?
- With PIP and the WFA, Labour are going to bring down their own government. They may then be eligible for PIP themselves, gaining 4 points on a daily living descriptor for self-harm ideation
- so, “The broadest shoulders” turned out to be #JustAnotherLabourLie #BlueLabour
- I'm always confused in the mindset that the poorest and most vulnerable in society need to be punished to make them work but the rich folk need tax cuts and handouts to make them work
- Great piece - thank you for covering this so well
- np!
- Healey squeezed the rich until the pips squeaked — now they squeeze the PIPs until the disabled do.
- Grinding poverty on behalf of Labour.
