Changes to disability benefits are likely to be kicked into the long grass, or scrapped all together
Barely a month after announcing the most severe crackdown on benefits in a decade, with threats to change cash support for disabled people into a voucher system and make it harder for people with mental illnesses to claim, it looks like the Department for Work and Pensions plan for sweeping reforms might be dead in the water.
This will delay any work on the 'Modernising support for independent living' Green Paper pending the outcome of the general election. According to the campaigners Benefits and Work, "if Labour win then that’s probably the last we will hear of the Green Paper".But, they said: "If the Conservatives win a working majority, then it’s likely that the Green Paper will be followed by a White Paper which will set out which of the proposals the government plans to take forward.
Speaking in the House of Commons for Liz Kendall, Shadow Work and Pensions Minister, MP Alison McGovern confirmed that the measures outlined in the DWP's policy Green Paper would not be forced through under a Labour government. "We will judge any measure that the government bring forward on its merits and against that principle, because the costs of failure in this area are unsustainable. The autonomy and routine of work is good for us all, for our mental and physical health—and more than that, for women, work is freedom, too.”
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