The UK aims to reduce billions of welfare in the budget crisis

The government of the Left Center in Britain clarified the plans on Tuesday to reduce the costs of escalating luxury because it tries to reconcile a difficult group of competing goals: providing public funds, stimulating work and protecting the most at risk.

This announcement follows weeks of strained internal debate within the ruling Labor Party, led by Prime Minister Kiir Starmer, on how to reduce Britain’s spending on luxury, which has risen sharply since the Covid-19s.

“The current situation is unacceptable, but it is not inevitable,” said Liz Kendall, Minister of Labor and Pensions, in Parliament.

For the Labor Party, the party that sees itself is the Creator of Britain’s guardian’s guardian for post -World War II, cutting support to some of the most vulnerable people in society is particularly controversial.

But Britain, with a population of about 68 million people, now has more than 9.3 million people from work throughout England, Scotland and Wales, non -employees, an increase of 713,000 since 2020. Among these, 2.8 million have long -term or related disease payments, according to the government, which expects the number to grow more than four million. The government spent 65 billion pounds on disease payments last year.

Facing installation pressure to Increase military spendingAt a time when public services are including Health system It is not funded poorly, and economic growth SlowBritain’s treasury is looking for discounts for public programs.

But the government insists on a strong moral issue to help people get rid of luxury and work strength. “Many patients and disabled people want to work with the right support,” Ms. Kendall told legislators. One in every 10 people of working age are now demanding the occasion of illness or disability;

According to the new plans, people in some programs will be granted “the right to try” without losing their right to social welfare, so that if their job does not succeed, they do not have to re -submit the application and then wait for the restoration of financial support.

The eligibility will be tightened to those who receive a personal independence batch, and it is designed to support the disabled people, whether they are at work or not. The government says that there are more than 3.6 million claims and about a thousand new requests every day, which makes Britain out of economic inactivity.

“This is not a long -term sustainable, above all for people who depend on this support,” said Ms. Kendall. However, I also announced that those who suffer from lifelong disabilities should not usually face reassessing their payments, as some do at the present time.

Parts of the government’s proposals may not apply outside England – especially in Scotland, which has the power to set its own policy in many aspects of social welfare, or in Northern Ireland, where the social welfare policy is also managed separately.

According to European standards, the welfare state in Britain is not particularly generous but relatively easy to access. Due to the way the programs are organized, it may be useful that it will be announced that it is unable to work from the unemployed, which was what Mrs. Kendall promised to address.

Some to the left of the Labor Party fear that the initiative is a symbol of a slow but fixed transformation from the right by Mr. Starmer, who once served in a great position in the opposition during the Jeremy Corbin era, one of the old warriors.

After his successor, Corbin as a party leader, Mr. Starmer cleared him of the party. Since winning the power of winning last July, the Labor Party has announced many policies that some have found to the left of the party difficult to restrict cash bulletins to help fuel bills in winter to the poorest of retirees only, and transfer spending from development aid abroad to the army.

Last week in Parliament, I mocked the Minister of Health, Weeson, and members of the opposition Conservative Party, and telling them: “It should be very painful for them to see a party government who only talked about it: limiting the bureaucracy of the enlarged state, investing in defense, and reforming our public services.”

Mr. Starmer loves to design himself as pragmatically and that the government argues that addressing the inactive age of the era of work will help the poorest if it provides them with support and motivation to enter the labor market.

More than half of the height of the working ages of work age since the Covid-19 pandemic related to mental health or behavioral conditions, according to Institute of Financial StudiesResearch collection.

But Rachel Maskel, who is a legislator, speaks before the advertisement, called for a social welfare policy “that supports people, not harm to people.”

“We need to make sure that people get the support they need in order to be safe and independent, but also where we can help people work, which is the right thing to do,” she told the BBC.