UK Government pledges to protect the disabled as benefits cut

The government will protect disabled people who genuinely cannot work, Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has confirmed, as she announces plans to cut the UK’s welfare bill and encourage those who can work, to do so.

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[Niyyah-ir]

Start taxing the rich and billionaires instead of robbing the poor

[TheHelga]

Absolutely disgraceful government. They have zero understanding of the stress and harm they do, although i believe they know exactly what they are doing. Furious with this government.

[deanh]

Lucky for us they never go back on a pledge.

[JohnnyTurnerMusic]

And people said the Tories were bad... They didn't keep punishing the working class like labour do.

[bobbadger]

A tax system that encourages the rich to avoid paying tax and labour yes labour decide to go for the poor . A governments debt is never paid back so don’t fall for that crap . The country is lacking in industry and attacking the poor won’t solve that . One tweek in the tax system would raise a colossal amount more but the government would never attempt that

[susanbrown]

Smoke and mirrors. News flash I worked all through having children, bringing up said children. All whilst having a hereditary disability, until I could no longer work. After early onset of arthritis. Everywhere. So whilst I wanted to work I couldn’t. I was retired on said medical grounds. I lived on my private medical pension. I’m a waspi woman. I was made medically retired 6 days before my retirement age was extended to 66. I had intended to early retire, but all my additional contributions to my pension went down the pan. No I couldn’t change the job I could do. So tell me why I am now being targeted again. Bluddy disgraceful. Pick on the big companies who made a mint by putting prices up, fuel electricity gas water etc. doesn’t it say something about the workforce and being let down by our healthcare system. That so many people are in such a bad way.

[trashman]

Kids, pensioners, farmers, unemployed, disabled, two tier policing, two tier laws...
Just be nice if they fixed something. Anything really...

[FredGreenGB]

And how are you going to determine which disability qualifies without discrimination.

[joshgarcia]

Yeah yeah. Like they protected the elderly

[AmyD]

I can't listen to her voice, sorry

[wilfredwood]

Is that like the pledge to help pensoners when removing winter fuel allowance. Which was no help at all.

[jaynejameson]

Like they keep to their word about everything then 🤦🏻‍♀️

[MayorofDipshittery-lqif]

The current government would rather protect illegals and foreigners above the needy and our pensioners. I’d love them to explain their logic.

[katherinerayner]

Yes attack the dissability it's a disgrace when mps have been using a credit card wich by the way there not allowed to spend on willy nilly but they have been yeah so there attack people with dissability great!

[oneall]

Protect the disabled while they redefine what it is to be person with an actual disability

[katherinerayner]

Also there is such a thing as invisible dissability not everybody who had a dissability has a facial disfigurement

[frostie]

Next they will 'protect' the country by cutting 5bn from the defence budget. so creative with their use of words.

[sheilaaciro]

Why are you paying for hotel football matches and not even talking about it.

[TheWorldAintWhatTheySaidAsKids]

150, 000 died prematurely due to Austerity between 2015-2019 acorrding to a study by university of Glasgow.

Labour called the torries at the time shameful…

[katherinerayner]

I work and i have a learning dissability