Ministers play down likely rise in poverty from UK welfare cuts, says charity

A prominent charitable institution accused the ministers of trying to eliminate the extent in which interest discounts will increase from poverty, claiming that official expectations depend on “light hand” to abandon the real influence.
A quarter of a million people, including 50,000 children, will be pushed to poverty as a result Welfare repairsAccording to the assessment of the impact published by the UK government, along with the spring statement of Chancellor Rachel Reeves on Wednesday.
But the Joseph Runitri Foundation said this was less, because the general number included a supposed decrease in poverty due to the abolition of the reforms planned by the previous conservative government.
The effect of the effect said that “not moving forward with the changes of the previous government” will benefit 370,000 people at a rate of 2,600 pounds annually. This was taken into consideration in the general estimate of a net height in the relative poverty of 250,000.
JRF has argued that since these changes have never advanced, the real effect will be higher, as the main analyst of charities, Peter Mattik, saying that the height of people in relative poverty will be at least 350,000.
The Treasury said that the evaluation of poverty was “among all the measures registered in the spring statement, which includes not moving forward in measures to assess the ability of the previous government.”
The Treasury added: “It is correct that this be included in the analysis of total poverty. If a proposal, it is misleading,” the Treasury added.
The budget responsibility office kept the savings flowing from the reforms intended for the conservatives in its financial expectations in October, because the government said that this would put its own reforms at least.
The government also estimates that about 800,000 people will lose deficit benefits, also known as PIPS, although individuals will lose an average of 4,500 pounds annually by 2029-30.
It is possible that the estimates will cause more resentment among the work deputies, and many of them are Already About the government to reduce the budgets of welfare and aid while raising defense spending.
Last week, Labz Kendall Minister and Pensions of Labor and Pensions revealed a package of social welfare reforms that included the tightening of the PIPS and reduced the highest rate of bone benefits in half.
However, its declaration did not include evaluating the impact of the government, which shows the number of people who will be affected by measures.
These numbers show that about 370,000 people receive the benefits of deficit will not get them when they are re -evaluated. He added that nearly half a million claims in the future will not be entitled to them either.
Meanwhile, about 2.25 million people will currently be affected by receiving the benefits of the deficit, known as the Universal Credit Health, by freezing prices, and on average £ 500 annually.
In addition, 750,000 future futures will lose the interest about 3000 pounds annually due to the government’s decision to reduce the benefit of the benefit in half for the new demands.
In about five families who suffer from a disability in the family, the benefits will lose as a result of reforms, as they have a loss of 1730 pounds annually, according to the analysis.
The relative poverty is defined as families whose income is less than 60 percent of the average level.
Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer was hoping that the changes announced last week would be about 5 billion pounds in annual savings by the end of the expected period, but OBR refused to “register” many proposed changes, claiming that the government did not provide sufficient details about policy proposals.
The conflict caused political chaos just hours ago Reeves put its spring statement.
Kendall was forced to find additional discounts in emergency situations, including freezing to the average normal benefits, which led to an increase in anger from deputies who reassured that social welfare reforms were not a purely engine.
“Everything looks like a loose,” said one of the people who looked at the preparations of the statement. “It was very messy.”
“The last minute that is scrambling to overcome more money from the welfare budget, any ethical state of discounts has crashed,” said Nile Denkan Jordan, Representative Nile Dunkan Jordan. “The policy will feed the social determinants of poverty, which ultimately creates more pressure on the services the advisor is trying to cut.”
Treasury Secretary Darren Jones overcame Backbench’s frustration on Wednesday when he compared cost -cost discounts from OBR to reducing his children’s pocket money while informing them of obtaining a job on Saturday.
Obr On Wednesday the estimated The total package of luxury measures will provide 3.4 billion pounds by 2029-30, after size in new spending on job support and management of the social welfare system-although it stressed that his estimates were very uncertain.
The Financial Supervision Authority said that this number includes a total of 3 billion pounds to spend on the regular advantages – of which 1.6 billion pounds allocated and that would have been preserved through the previous conservative reforms that the current government canceled.
It also includes a reduction of 4.1 billion pounds in spending on the advantages of the deficit in England and Wales. Meanwhile, the most generous rate for the unemployed will add 1.8 billion pounds to spending by 2029-30, before the small additional cost because it is expected to demand more people.
However, OBR said that there were not enough details to assess whether the changes in financial incentives and job support would bring more patients and disabled to work in the long term.
However, he pointed out that the people concerned “generally have the ability to work and may be outside the labor market for some time.”
The government said that its estimates for people who prompted poverty did not take into account its programs to introduce people to work, which expects to reduce some financial losses.
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2025-03-26 22:13:00