Labor Backbenchers are urging the government to reconsider Employed disability profit deduction After the restoration of winter fuel payment to the majority of pensioners by Rachel Reeves.
Chancellor’s £ 1.25 billion initiative revealed on Monday, Will provide automatic payment Pensioners up to £ 300 with income below £ 35,000 annually.
This decision is the reversal of last year to remove the universal scheme for pensioners, which was restored to specific claims benefits Like pension credit.
Labor MP Nadia Whitom for the Nottingham East warned ministers against repeating the “equal mistake” by tightening the eligibility criteria for personal freedom payment (PIP).
Richard Bargon, Leeds East MP, noted Pension Minister Torsten Bell’s concerns, offered the government to help them to “correct it”.
In her warning, Ms. Whitom said that she was not asking Sri Bell to “maintain the status quo or support people in work” and said: “I am just asking her not to cut the profit of the people with disabilities.”
The Pension Minister, who works in both Treasury and Department for work and pension, replied that the number of people receiving PIPs continues to grow every year after changes set by this government “.
In its way of working green paper, the government proposed a new eligibility requirement, so PIP claimants would have to score a minimum of four points on a daily life activity, such as preparing, washing and bathing, using or reading toilets, using toilets, to achieve daily life elements of profit.
“This means that people who score the lowest points only on each of PIP daily life activities, they will lose their eligibility in the future,” the document said.
Mr. Bargon told the Commons: “As a Labor MP, who voted against the winter fuel payment deduction, I welcome this change a lot in this situation, but can I urge the minister and the government to learn lessons of this and there is a lesson, listen to the backbencher?
“If the minister and the government listen to the backbenchers, it can help the government to be right, it helps the government to avoid it wrong, and so what we do not want to have a dispatch box with a minister in a year or two, after sending the dispatch box with a minister, there is no more U-turn on disability benefits, again.”
Mr. Bell replied that it was “to listen to backbenchers, to the frontbencher”.
When the minister said, the opposition MPs happy and said: “It is also important to listen to the members contrast on this occasion.”
Liberal Democrat MP Mike Martin warned that “Looking at questions from his own backbenchers, it seems that we are going to u-turn on the pip and two-children profit cap”.
The Tunbridge Wales MP asked Mr. Bell: “To save his colleagues from suffering, will he now tell us when they are coming to U-turn?”
The minister replied: “What Labor MPs want to see, there is a labor government that is reducing child poverty, and this is what we are going to do.
“Labor MPs who want to see are a government that can take responsible decisions in which taxes are difficult and tested for winter fuel so that we can invest in public services and move around the humiliation that has become a very long time in the public purview of Britain.”
East Work and Pension Secretary Esther McWaway had earlier asked whether Chancellor, “Now that he and the government have got a taste for climb”, “equally ridiculous national insurance contribution (NIC) arises, which is destroying jobs, and inheriting transformations, which are destroying fields and family businesses”.
Mr. Bell said: “This is a party that has not learned any lesson, who thinks that it can come in this room, call for more expenses, can oppose every tax growth and expects to take it seriously anytime – they will not.”
Labor MP Rebecca Long-Beli pressed the government to make two-child profit changes, meaning that most parents cannot claim for more than two children.
Salaford MP told Commons, “This is the right thing to get pensioners out of poverty, and I am sure both he and Chancellor also agree that it is right to get children out of poverty.”
“So can he assure this house that he and the Chancellor are doing all that they can underline the plan to lift the two-child cap as soon as possible?”
Mr. Bell replied: “All liver is on the liver table to reduce child poverty.
“Children’s poverty strategy will be published in autumn.”
He said: “If we see who is struggling the most, then to stop their heating, it is actually young families with children who are struggling with it.
“So he is perfect to increase this issue, it is one of the main objectives of this government, we cannot walk with a situation where large families, vast percentage of them, are in poverty.”
