Unum has warned that the Welfare Reform Bill will mean benefits are harder to come by while the Citizen's Advice Bureau (CAB) claims reforms are unfair to the sick.
The CAB fears that cutting contribution based Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) after a year will ‘betray' those who cannot work because of sickness or injury. And it hit out at plans to double the waiting time for disabled people to become eligible for the new Personal Independence Payment (PIP) once it replaces Disability Living Allowance (DLA). Gillian Guy, chief executive of the CAB, made the statements in response to the government's unveiling of its new welfare state arrangements. Guy explained that the Bill heralds the biggest change to the welfare state since it began ...
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