Labour gives update on 2025 sickness and disability benefits overhaul
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Work on the changes to PIP and other benefits will begin next year. Labour’s reforms to sickness and disability benefits remain set to begin in early 2025, as Downing Street gives an update on the DWP plans. The party will launch a consultation in Spring 2024 “to ensure the system is better supporting people,” building on the ideas laid out in the ‘Get Britain Working Again’ white paper.
![[DWP secretary Liz Kendall and Keir Starmer PM in June 2024]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/06/04/18/SEI207322561.jpg)
Reforms to health and disability benefits are central to the paper, which says the current system is “not well designed to promote and enable employment.” Labour is also looking to cut £3bn from the welfare spending bill over the next four years.
The prime minister’s spokesperson said: “We have seen a situation this Government inherited on inactivity, we have seen the situation on the spiralling benefits bill with millions of people on long-term illness or disability out of work and not getting the support that they need, and that is why we are determined to fix this.
“Building on our ‘get Britain working’ White Paper, we will be publishing a consultation in the spring on measures to ensure the system is better supporting people, including young people, to get them into work and keep them in work. “The Government’s approach is going to be to tackle the root causes of this issue, but it is a massive challenge, it has built up over years.”.
