What are the concessions to the welfare bill - and will MPs back it?

Number 10 has made concessions connected its payment measure aft situation talks with Labour rebels.

Sir Keir Starmer volition beryllium hoping the changes are capable to debar a Commons decision erstwhile the measures are enactment to a ballot connected Tuesday - but respective MPs person said they are inactive not satisfied.

Sky News looks astatine what was successful the woody and whether it volition beryllium capable to triumph implicit critics.

Politics Live: Labour rebel hails 'good deal' aft No 10 makes concessions connected welfare

Changes to PIP

In a missive to MPs, Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall confirmed each existing claimants of the idiosyncratic independency outgo (pip) volition beryllium exempt from the cuts to eligibility.

It means the caller qualifying requirements volition beryllium implemented from November 2026 for caller claims only.

This is simply a large U-turn arsenic the changes to pip, the main disablement payment successful England, had caused the astir upset among MPs readying to rebel.

Pip is wealth fixed to people, including immoderate of whom are successful work, who person other attraction oregon mobility needs arsenic a effect of a disability.

People who assertion it are awarded points depending connected their quality to bash definite activities, specified arsenic washing and preparing food, which influences however overmuch they volition receive.

Currently claimants request to people a minimum of 8 points crossed a scope of tasks to suffice for the regular surviving constituent (there is simply a mobility constituent that is not affected by the plans). Under the caller rules radical volition request to people a minimum of 4 points successful astatine slightest 1 enactment to qualify.

By limiting the changes to caller claimants only, it is estimated 370,000 radical who had been owed to suffer retired volition present get to support their benefit.

This volition travel astatine a outgo of £1.5bn by the extremity of the parliament, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

It is not wide however that volition beryllium funded, prompting speculation of taxation rises astatine the autumn budget.

Universal Credit

The 2nd enactment backmost involves planned changes to cosmopolitan recognition (UC).

The authorities had intended to frost the wellness top-up astatine £97 a week during this parliament.

However, each existent recipients of the wellness element, arsenic good arsenic immoderate caller applicants gathering the "severe conditions criteria", volition present person their incomes protected successful existent terms.

The authorities volition inactive chopped the complaint to £50 for caller claimants from 2026/7, portion raising the modular complaint of UC for jobseekers.

More wealth for radical to find work

The wellness top-up is for radical who person a constricted quality to enactment due to the fact that of a disablement oregon agelong word sickness, but ministers are acrophobic astir the rising fig of claimants and privation to incentivise radical backmost into work.

Ms Kendall antecedently said £1bn would beryllium utilized for targeted enactment schemes to assistance radical retired of inactivity and into jobs.

In her letter, she said the authorities "will beforehand load much of the further backing generated by these reforms for backmost to enactment enactment for sick and disabled people".

Will MPs backmost the changes?

Care curate Stephen Kinnock told Sky News connected Friday greeting the changes are a "really large measurement successful the close direction".

The intent of the measure was to shave £5bn disconnected the payment fund by 2030 and tackle the rising numbers of radical who are economically inactive. Lots of MPs said they agreed with the rule of betterment but were acrophobic with the interaction connected disabled people.

Initially, implicit 120 Labour MPs had signed a "reasoned amendment" calling for the changes to beryllium delayed portion disabled radical were consulted on.

Dame Meg Hillier, the influential seat of the Treasury prime committee who had tabled the amendment, said past nighttime that the authorities had offered a "good deal".

However, it is yet up to idiosyncratic MPs to determine if they privation to enactment it.

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Several MPs connected the near of the enactment person travel guardant to accidental they won't. This includes the likes of Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne and Nadia Whittome, who person expressed concerns astir a two-tier system.

Sky News has spoken to different MPs who privately accidental they won't backmost the bill. One rebel said a WhatsApp radical has been acceptable up to denote their intentions and helium believes 50 person already stated their volition to ballot against the bill.

Others person told Sky News they are undecided. One rebel said she has "no idea" however she'll ballot and is "waiting to spot the finer details and however things cookware retired connected Monday". Another said helium expects helium volition nary longer ballot against but volition marque his caput up firmly erstwhile helium has seen the afloat details.