The UK promised to boost 1 billion pounds to support the job for the disabled has not yet been funded

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The UK government’s promise to Melille billion pounds to help those with disabilities work to work with new treasury funds, which indicates the ability of the ministers to provide divisional luxury reforms while continuing to deal with other priorities such as youth unemployment.

The ministers framing unpopular Discounts on the benefits of disease and disability As a “moral mission” to help people carry out work rather than attracting life to the advantages.

They say that by 2029-30, there will be 1 billion pounds of new financing annually to ensure support for all benefits claims who suffer from a healthy condition who want to help enter or return to work.

But only 400 million pounds of this will happen by 2028-29-which is the last year covered by the budgets of the departments stipulated in reviewing spending earlier this month. Spending to reach one million pounds in the last year of Parliament.

“Our goal is to combine this new investment with the current ability to create a large and simple offer for work, health and skills for persons with disabilities and people who suffer from a health condition,” said the Ministry of Labor and pensions in assessing its impact on government sponsorship reforms, which was published last week.

But the total budget for DWP for the daily operation of the social welfare system will increase by 0.4 percent annually with the real value of the three years in which it aims to offer this additional support-and will not grow at all based on an individual after size growth in the UK population.

“The revolution in supporting work … has promised to sweeten the sharp cuts in disabilities, must now be funded from the freezing budgets of thought mainly.”

On Thursday, Vicky Foxatevt Deputy He resigned as a lash In protest against the government’s plans to reduce deficit subsidies. She said that addressing the increasing social welfare bill “can be done by supporting more disabled people” instead of cutting benefits.

More than 100 Labor Party representatives have expressed their concerns about the reforms, although it is not clear that they will vote against the bill next month.

DWP has not yet determined what the new job support will take. By autumn, they hope to persuade the budget responsibility office that the new support leads to great gains in work, which leads to billions of social welfare savings and broader benefits to society.

OBR officials question the possibility of obtaining large payments from work programs to work programs and said in March they could not cost proposals without further details.

“The previous experience is that it is very difficult to obtain great results from employment support programs,” Tom Josephs, a member of the OBR Budget Committee, told MPS earlier this year.

Meanwhile, analysts say the commitment to additional support for those who suffer from health conditions will limit DWP’s ability to address other priorities-especially “youth guarantee” to help children from 18 to 21 years to reach industrial discipleship, training and job support.

“I think other things will be pressure,” said Stephen Evans, CEO of the Institute of Learning and Labor, adding that there is support for the unemployed in the long run and financing to ensure youth.

DWP refused to determine whether other services will be reduced in order to meet the commitment of two million pounds. She said that the gains of competence would allow her to “give priority to funding to support employment.”

The administration is currently spending 275 million pounds annually to support the job for patients and disabled people. The increase of one billion pounds will consume a number of its total daily spending on providing services and nearly a third of its spending on employment support-which is scheduled to rise to 3.5 billion pounds by 2028-29.

DWP refused to specify the amount it spends on employment support at the present time, or whether subsidies will be reduced to other groups in order to meet the obligation of 1 billion pounds. She said that the gains of competence will allow her to “give priority to funding to support employment” and that eight local pilots from the guarantee of young people, who are funded by 45 million pounds in their first year, will continue.

DWP said he was “determined to create a luxury system that supports people at work and out of poverty.”