According to labor politicians, people are scared of benefits reforms

Labor politicians say people in his constituency are “terrifying” about the prime minister’s decision to strengthen standards for asserting the benefits of illness and disability.

Alun Davies, a member of Senedd at Blaenau Gwent, said residents affected by disability and poverty are already “struggling to achieve their goals.”

In a spring statement Wednesday, Rachel Reeves announced many benefits changes, including the tightening of the Personal Independent Payment (PIPS) Eligibility Rules (PIPS) claimed by more than 250,000 people in Wales.

“It scares the most vulnerable people in our society. It’s very painful to see,” Davis said.

“As a Labour party, all we need to do is address the fundamentals of the economy,” he told BBC Radio Wales’ Sunday Supplements.

“As the economy is failing, taxation is rising at this point.

According to census data, “People want to work, people want to live a decent life.

Kanishka Narayan, a Labour MP who represents members of the Valley of Glamorgan, told the television program BBC Politics Wales that “change needs to happen” despite receiving emails from people who “feeling uncertainty and uncertainty.”

He said the welfare system “is not getting enough support from people to get to work.”

“A quarter of Wales is old enough to not look for work, not work, and certainly not a context that anyone can accept,” he said.

Speaking about the same program, North Wales conservative MS Sam Lowlands said the spring statement was “in a hurry.”

“We’re going to see people affected by it being not treated fairly. We don’t see the efficiency that reforms in this sector can bring.”

Ben Lake, Plaid Cymru MP for Ceredigion Preseli, said he is wary of the demands that “the most vulnerable in society” be “bear the burden” of economic hardships.

At the address to MPS Wednesday, Reeves said it was “not right” to “depreciate” an entire generation who lost their jobs and inappropriately use pips.

PIP has two elements – Daily Life and Mobility Components – Under the government’s proposal, some assessments of daily life will be tightened, and the official predictor, the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR), will affect around 800,000 people.

The Prime Minister also confirmed the universal health-related credits to new claimants, which are expected to be in half from April 2026 under the package announced last week, but will be frozen at a new low level of £50 a week until 2030.

In the labor and pension assessment sector, 3.2 million families in England and Wales have been exacerbated as a result of the change, pushing 250,000 people into relatively poverty.

The UK government says the reforms are aimed at modernizing the welfare system and bringing many of the people back to work.

On Friday, Wales’ first minister refused to support Morgan’s welfare cuts and told Sened he “want to secure my position” until he learned what the impact on Wales was.

Narayan also confirmed that the first minister had received responses from Liz Kendall, executive director of work and pensions, in response to requests for a Wales-specific impact assessment.

Plaid Cymru leader Rhun Ap Iorwerth wrote to the first minister urging her to publish this response.

“Given that these reforms have significant consequences for the Welsh people, I encourage you to make your response fully public without delay,” he wrote.