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Confused_Fred
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Labour have very little choice on this issue. About 20% of those out of work are claiming PIP/DLA/INCAP. 3.9 million people in England and Wales claimed an incapacity or disability benefit in August 2023, an increase of 9% from August 2022.
In the UK we have about 35 million paying income tax including pensioners.
With over 10% of people claiming long term sickness benefit's and never returning to work. Lets face it, its unaffordable.
If the new government puts up taxes people will start to work less and the knock on effect will be more claims for in work benefits. For many work is becoming unaffordable with child care costs. The cost of living is way to high right now and increasing VAT would would slow down the economy.
I feel labour will focus on people with children and cut welfare payments for single people to pay for it.
Labour had a plan for winning the election, but nothing beyond that. By Oct we should know where the cuts will come.