Some 75 percent of Britain think Government’s plan to remove personal independent payment (PIP) From those people for a long time Handicap Is “cruel”,
A new pole, commissioned by Human Rights Charity Amnesty International UK, Most people surveyed – 54 percent – did not support government changes Ban the number of people claiming PIP.
Under the schemes in the controversial new welfare bills, a higher bar will be introduced for PIP for eligibility, the main disability benefits in England. PIPs are given to support excess cost disabled people, such as high energy bills or mobility tools. Those who claim that it is awarded points based on the ability to do some things, such as washing.
The new measures introduced in the welfare bill, which will be voted on Tuesday (July 1), will require claimants to score at least eight points in a series of tasks to qualify for daily life’s allowance. In the concession of Labor MPs, Liz Kendal has exempted existing PIP contenders from these new requirements.
A Sawant Pole of 2,080 people looked after age and region found that 69 percent of the respondents preferred to tax the UK government to tax on super-prosperous tax rather than a social security cut. 59 percent also said that cutting the pip will not help in using more people.
Those respondents living in the northwest were most likely to label the cuts as “cruel” – 82 percent of the people agreed with the statement. After this, 80 percent of the people in the southeast were closely.
Voting comes ahead by a crunch vote in Parliament on Tuesday. After deciding to vote against more than 120 MPs, the government has given concessions to Labor MPs to revolt on the welfare bill.
Jane Clarke of Amnesty International said: “The message of the public is clear: Poverty is a political option, and this government is dangerously close to the rights of the people and the politics of the party.
“During every age group, background and political belief, people agree that PIP cutting is cruel and they can see the proposals what they are – inappropriate, unnecessary and unjust.”
Disability Charity Scope has also criticized planned changes, the strategy executive director James Taylor has accused the government of subjected to the “two-level system” to the disabled, where the “large number of people” are still out of the pocket.
He said: “The government will now have to change the course on these terrible cuts”.
A government spokesperson said: “We are distributing one of the largest packages of welfare reforms in a generation – including scripting the work capacity, rebirth universal credit and investing in sewn employment assistance.
“Protecting people is a principle on which we will never compromise, which is why we are providing long -lasting and meaningful changes that put the welfare system on a durable leg, so the safety trap will always be for those who need it.”