Scottish government announced Change in welfare disability benefits Preface Labor,
Cost reduction measures are largely focused on measures Individual freedom paymentStaying with a disease or disability is designed to help with extra cost.
Equal Scotland There is adult disability payment (ADP), and whose administration is developed for the Scottish government.
Social Justice Secretary of Holyrud, Sherly-Annie Somarville confirmed the verdict in an official announcement, criticized the UK government for plans.
Ms. Somarville said: “The proposed reforms of the UK government will be extremely harmful to those who rely on social security aid, especially during the ongoing cost of living crisis. These schemes have still been passed in the Westminster, so I still have time to step back from this harmful policy for the UK government and I am strongly urged to scrape their harmful proposals.
“Corrections do not reflect the values of the Scottish government. We will not disappoint people with disabilities or will not separate them as the UK government has done. We will not cut the Scotland adult disability payments.
“The UK government should follow our leadership and protect the social security security system instead of eliminating it. If they do not, the disabled people cannot draw any other conclusions compared to the UK government, which cannot have material to balance books on the back of the weakest people.”
Ms. Somarville highlighted the conclusions for the budget responsibility (OBR) by the office that the changes have been set to push more than 250,000 people into poverty, including 50,000 children. For Dunfrmline, the MSP claimed that this hair threatens to reduce work to reduce poverty, which indicates labor’s refusal Scrap the two-child profit cap.
Work and Pension Secretary Liz Kendal presented a welfare bill on Wednesday, which the MPs are ready to vote next month – But currently divided,
Ms. Kendal defended the reforms – aimed at encouraging more people in the benefits and work of the disease – saying that they were “social security systems at an intersection”.
He said: “Unless we improve it, more people will be denied opportunities, and it cannot be for those who need it.
“This law represents a new social contract and marks the moment we take a road of compassion, opportunity and dignity.”
While Scotland is able to decide how to administer ADP, measures in the bill about universal credit are still responsible for affecting Scottish citizens, as this benefit is centrally managed.
From April 2026, the payment rate for the health element of the universal credit would have accumulated. Those who are already receiving it will be £ 423.27 per month by 2029/30.
However, after this month new applicants will get a severely cut rate of £ 217.26 – about half.
Controversial proposals have widely criticized donations and campaign groups. More than 100 labor MPs are allegedly considering voting against the government on schemes as the government faces an important rebellion.
