Rachel Reeves rejected his findings that his government would reject 250,000 people to poverty and refuse to ignore more deductions.
Chancellor wants to save £ 5 billion from British balloon welfare bill, making it difficult to demand personal independence payments and reduce universal loan.
Today, an impact assessment published by the Ministry of Labor and Pension, including current and future benefit plaintiffs, 3.2 million families will lose an average of £ 1,720 per year as a result of changes, he said.
“As a result of changes in social security at 2029/30, we estimate that there will be 250,000 people (including 50,000 children) in relative poverty after housing costs.”
However, in an interview with HuffPost UK, after making a spring statement, Chancellor rejected these findings and claimed that the government did not take into account what he was doing to hire people again.
He said: “These figures are not based on a single person who moves from prosperity to work, and in addition to the package of welfare reforms, we provide £ 1 billion, personalized and guaranteed support to help them find jobs suitable for their situation.
“I know that there are thousands of disabled people who are desperate to work when support is provided.
The disabled campaignists reacted angrily to the welfare deductions they said they would have a “disaster” effect on aid plaintiffs.
Reeves asked if no one can guarantee that he will not be pushed into poverty by welfare reforms: orum I want more people to benefit from security, dignity, and a job.
“We also increase the national life fee, so if you work full -time, you will earn £ 1,400. We want people to move to safe, good paid employment [and] We will support people to get there. “
After the chancellor said that the Budget Responsibility Office would not provide the necessary savings of the already announced, it was forced to find another welfare deduction of £ 500 million on the eve of the spring statement.
When Reeves asked if he can make more deduction for prosperity in the future: “We have identified the welfare reforms we want to do, and in addition to the changes, we publish a green article to consult more targeted measures to support the most serious disabled people, but we also look at how we can encourage young people not to benefit and never to remove them.
“We must make sure that our prosperity system is sustainable for the future, and the reforms we put forward will do this.”
He asked if more deduction was possible for the second time, he said: “It is not about these deductions, but to reshape the way of working the welfare system.
“The prosperity system should focus more on giving people the support they need to find a job instead of parking people, which is the approach of the previous government.”
