‘We have to bring the benefits bill down’: Healey signals return to welfare reform (www.independent.co.uk)

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Brace for another administration of austerity and victim blaming rather than taxing the wealthy.

Surely, it's the people who are ill, poor and foreign who are to blame for the state of the country, and not the rich sucking up all the money.

As far as I can tell, this is just trying soften the blow and curtail the pushback these policies will inevitably face.

The time to cut funding, if ever, is when things are going great. That is the opposite of how things are now.

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[-] ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

One of the problems with this is that a large number of those claiming universal credit are in work, and the benefit acts as a subsidy for employers who don't have to pay their employees enough to actually get by.

It also doesn't affect PIP, which is not means tested. The only way to reduce PIP claimants without harming disabled people is to fix the absolutely humongous issues with the NHS that are leaving more people without treatment or even a diagnosis for far longer than it should.

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