Keir’s benefits blitz will cost you MILLIONS and brutal Budget tax raid means there’s no ‘work’ to get back to, MPs slam

MINISTERS were accused past nighttime accused of "kicking the tin down the road" implicit failing to urgently enactment connected the bulging benefits bill.

Senior Tories deed retired saying delaying taking a determination is adding millions of pounds - with the outgo acceptable to emergence to £100 cardinal by 2030.

But measures announced focused connected employment enactment with a benefits crackdown not expected to beryllium published until adjacent year.

The enactment took spot successful the Commons arsenic Welfare Secretary Liz Kendall launched her "Get Britain Working" plan.

She told MPs that "under this Labour government, if you tin work, you indispensable work".

Concerns were besides raised that the effects of the Budget including a £25 cardinal nationalist security emergence to concern volition besides deed firms trying to enlistee workers.

There are presently 2.8 cardinal out of work owed to semipermanent sickness with 9 cardinal radical classed arsenic economically inactive.

More than fractional of those are aged 50 to 64 but the steepest increase has been for those aged 16 to 34 who relationship for 22 per cent - but that is up by 3 per cent since 2019 and 2023.

Sir Keir Starmer promised during the predetermination to summation the employment complaint to 80% from its existent level of astir 75% meaning astir two cardinal much radical successful work.

But Shadow Welfare Secretary Helen Whately said:    “Every time she kicks the tin down the roadworthy costs the payer millions of pounds, astatine this complaint rising to £100 cardinal connected sickness benefits by the extremity of this Parliament, wealth that alternatively they are taking from farmers, from pensioners, from businesses.

“But to get radical disconnected benefits you request jobs for them to spell into, the precise jobs businesses are saying since the Budget they volition nary longer beryllium hiring for.”

The Resolution Foundation said the welfare reforms could boost surviving standards but warned the program "needs due resourcing to truly marque a difference".

Greg Thwaites, probe director, said:  "It's not yet clear, for example, however the Government volition guarantee that determination are capable employment, grooming and apprenticeship opportunities to marque its 'job guarantee' cast-iron for young people."

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) demanded Ministers "join the dots" betwixt its determination to summation nationalist security and hopes of getting radical backmost into work.

Matthew Percival,  of the CBI, said:  "The Government tin marque it easier for businesses to invest successful worker wellness by taking a pragmatic attack to the Employment Rights Bill and expanding tax-free occupational wellness support.

"CBI investigation shows 49% of businesses would reinvest taxation savings into further worker wellness support, with an further 26% investing more."