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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Aine Fox

Chancellor urged to safeguard disability benefits from welfare reform cuts

Rachel Reeves will deliver her spring statement on March 26 (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

Cutting disability benefits as part of welfare reform would have a “catastrophic impact” on people, more than a dozen charities have warned the Chancellor.

The organisations have written to Rachel Reeves urging her to “safeguard” disability benefits in her upcoming spring statement, arguing that hundreds of thousands of disabled households could be pushed into poverty otherwise.

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