CPAG's response to proposals for disability reform

Responding to the statement on sickness and disability benefit reform by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Child Poverty Action Group’s Chief Executive Alison Garnham said:

The prime minister’s vital commitment to improved living standards for all would be shattered if disabled people are left behind. Children in a household where someone has a disability already have a higher risk of poverty and further cuts would only make life harder for many of these families. The government’s forthcoming child poverty strategy must prioritise investing in the social security system, including by scrapping the two-child limit, and it would be undermined by cuts that take support away from people who need it and risk pushing yet more children into poverty.

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CPAG analysis shows that 870,000 children live in families who receive PIP, 290,000 of these are already in poverty.