Badenoch pledges to ‘draw a line’ on which health issues get welfare support

Evening Standard

The Conservatives will “draw a line” on which health issues the state treats as disabilities in a bid to cut the UK’s benefits bill, Kemi Badenoch has said.The Tory leader said her party would carry out a “full review” of which conditions qualify a person for welfare support as part of plans to “get Britain working again”.

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00:00we will review every circumstance in which benefits are currently paying more than work

00:12we will undertake a full review of the level and operation of the household benefit cap

00:16which currently acts more like a sieve than a cap because most people on benefits avoid it

00:23through one exemption or another exemptions like being diagnosed with anxiety being

00:29diagnosed with anxiety can be worth more than twenty thousand pounds to some families

00:36however the online is beautiful and then that way it's all ready for the customer to then have

00:48straight out of Christmas

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