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The U-turn, including protecting personal independence payments (Pip) for existing claimants, comes after 126 MPs threatened ...
Flagship reforms to key benefits are set to be watered down after the government was forced to offer concessions to a growing rebellion among Labour MPs ...
Health minister Stephen Kinnock is confident the Government’s welfare legislation will pass the Commons after Sir Keir Starmer backed down in the face of a major rebellion over welfare cuts. In a late ...
Current Pip claimants will not lose their DWP benefits after the Government made concessions to Labour rebels on controversial welfare reforms.
Currently claimants need to score a minimum of eight points across a range of tasks to qualify for the daily living element (there is a mobility element that is not affected by the plans). Under the ...
Some 126 party backbenchers had signed an amendment that would halt the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill in its tracks.
A demonstration against the Labour Government’s planned welfare reforms is to take place in Doncaster, despite Prime Minister ...