India has cut welfare leakage by 12.7% through Aadhaar-linked digital payments and biometric authentication, setting a global benchmark in welfare integrity, says a BCG report. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/aadhaar-payments-welfare-leakage-reduction-india-q4nzhlzq?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Aadhaar #WelfareReforms #DigitalIndia #PublicFinance #IndiaEconomy

Would you have thought that before putting out a Green Paper proposing massive changes to #PIP eligibility rules, #Labour would have consulted the key stakeholders? Organisations and charities supporting the #disabled. Especially as these so called #WelfareReforms were not in their 2024 manifesto?

Well you would be wrong. My friend has just received this FOI request back from the DWP…

The impact statement of #Reeves' #welfarereforms will be published tomorrow

It may be brutal

Here is a post on another social media site, one where Liz Kendall suggests people should sign a petition to stop #PIP from being cut.

#welfarebenefits
#welfarereforms

An initial analysis of Kendall's #welfarereforms revealed on #Channel4News is 1.2 million people will lose over £4,000 and these 1.2 million people will be at the poorest end of society

#VoteLabourGetTorture

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Tellingly, these 'savings' are all part and parcel of the calculations within #Reeves' #SpringStatement

"British compassion has been replaced by a punitive, mean-spirited and often callous approach apparently designed to impose a rigid order on the lives of those least capable of coping."

#ToryBritain
#WelfareReforms
#UnitedNations
#PoorNastyAndBrutish
#ToriesBrokeBritain
#Austerity

https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/damning-un-report-compares-tory-welfare-regime-to-victorian-workhouses

Damning UN report compares Tory welfare regime to Victorian workhouses

A damning UN report has compared the controversial Tory welfare regime to the infamous Victorian workhouses of the 19th Century.

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@LJClements8 Unfortunately both main parties are #neoliberal. It was #Labour who started the so-called #WelfareReforms. The third party, #LiberalDemocrats, when part of #UKgov also jumped on the band-wagon and voted for stripping #disabled & #ChronicallyIll folk of their #benefits ( #SocialSecurity ) and thus many lost their adapted vehicles, motor-scooters and even electronic #wheelchairs! There is little hope for us - save for #Scotland, but that may not last…