Leaked Analysis: Reform UK Welfare Plan Could Cost Disabled Up to £10,000/Year

Leaked Analysis: Reform UK Welfare Plan Could Cost Disabled Up to £10,000/Year

A leaked government analysis finds Reform UK's proposal to replace disability benefits with a flat £429.80 monthly allowance would cost even the terminally ill or blind up to £10,000 yearly. Some 250,000 people, including 50,000 children, would fall into relative poverty. Reform UK wants to cut £50bn from benefits annually — ten times what Labour failed to pass last year.

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