Reform UK unveils plan to cut £50 billion a year from soaring benefits bill | Politics | News
Reform UK Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick (Image: Getty) Reform UK would cut £50 billion from the welfare bill if the party wins power, Robert Jenrick has said. Reform’s Treasury spokesman, who will set out the plans at a press conference tomorrow, described it as the biggest shake-up of the welfare state in a generation. Under the proposals, personal independence payments (Pip) and the health element of Universal Credit for working-age adults would be ditched. Almost three million people seeing disability and sickness payments would have them removed or changed. Writing in The Telegraph, Mr Jenrick said: “We will not pretend this is painless. Existing claimants will be reassessed over three to four years: we estimate that 2.16 million will keep their present cash entitlement in full, while 2.89 million will see theirs modified or withdrawn, concentrated where recent growth has been most explosive.” He said the state must be there to support people who need it but “dumping our young people onto welfare isn’t compassion; it’s neglect”. Mr Jenrick added: “We are not lifting people …
