This community has an uneasy sense the poorest will be hardest hit by government’s welfare cuts | UK News

Among families struggling to end, there is an uncomfortable feeling that the people who can least afford it are forced to carry most of the country’s financial misery.

Since the impact statement of the government’s welfare cuts was exempted – revealing Tens of thousands of children are typified in poverty – In a community center in Wolverhampton, families have shared their frustration that sick and disabled will be those who lose.

“It’s for people who need extra help because they’re sick, so why would they target it? I’m confused,” Melissa said.

She is a former caregiver, and she is currently pregnant and says she would like to go back to work and could not do it since her older children were born – because of the cost of childcare.

Melissa believes that the government’s goal of encouraging more people is “a good thing, that’s what they need”. But she questions where the work is for people who were out of work and may struggle because of illness.

“It’s good to say that they make cuts, but how are they going to help get people back into work by making them cut?” she asked.

Philippa agrees. “It’s always a certain part of the community being targeted and it’s always with low income,” she says.

Philippa, now a grandmother, but a few more years away from retirement, recently applied for the PIP for Disability Benefits – Personal Independence Payment – due to diabetes and related health problems.

She was rejected, but intends to appeal – and says she feels targeted by government cutting.

“My son has a living allowance for disabilities, which means I can become his caregiver, and it’s the choice to find a job,” she says, adding, “I’ve never had to look at ways of avoiding”.

The cuts on welfare target the fast growing costs for the public wallet of illness and disability benefits.

The bill currently stands £ 65 billion a year and has been fueled by a major increase in demands of young people with mental illness since the pandemic balloon.

The measures are designed to remove some of the barriers to working within the system.

Currently, people who are sick can double the amount that job seekers receive in benefits.

However, they run the risk of losing the extra money if they do get a job.

Stephanie Leo is a senior community support worker in Wolverhampton and believes that some people are looking for work because they are concerned about losing their benefits.

“If you can still work on certain benefits that would be more impressive,” she says.

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Winston Lindsay, 57, struggles to walk due to a variety of conditions, including spondylosis affecting his spine.

He was a social worker earlier, but now runs a voluntary organization in Wolverhampton that supports people with disabilities.

He uses his PIP payments to cover the basics, but says he is already struggling to get past, and is concerned that if his benefits are reduced, it will have a ‘big impact’ that will force him to limit how much cost he buys, and how often he will place the heating at home.

“We’ll have to pack and wear more clothes,” he says. “I’m just glad it is summer at the moment – with winter it’s going to be the worst period.”

The purpose of the government is that more people who are currently receiving benefits will look for work.

Ben Harrison, director of the Work Foundation, told Sky News that this could happen.

“These measures will mean that they have an increasing need to work with service support services.

“The problem here is whether they can be linked to the appropriate types of work,” he says.

He believes the risk is that people are “pushed into inappropriate types of work”.

“It makes their condition worse in the end, and it also makes their long-term job prospects worse,” he adds.