Labour’s benefits reviewer insisted the current cost of handouts is ‘not a great concern’ today.
Stephen Timms played down the need for outright cuts to health and disability welfare, despite warnings from the Tories that the Government is ‘in denial’.
Instead the minister argued that the aim should be to make the system ‘financially sustainable’ and stop the level increasing ‘forever’.
Sir Stephen said he believed there had been a real increase in numbers suffering ill health and disability since Covid, and that was showing through in claims.
The Timms review into personal independence payments – PIP – was launched last year after a
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