Social Security’s Disability Insurance (SSDI) program has existed for nearly 60 years. Over that time, it has morphed from a relatively small-scale, anti-poverty program into a massive system that provides benefits to one out of every 20 working-age individuals. Despite its size and expense, the program fails to keep millions out of poverty.
i don t think she has any room for manoeuvre with any cuts. what s interesting is that the public polling and the focus groups are all saying, we didn t really need a tax cut, we needed our public services to work, we need schools to work. teachers are paid 8% less than they were in 2010. health service workers are paid less. you can t operate in that way, particularly when you ve got huge numbers of vacancies and a shortage of people to filljobs. so i think whichever way she turns now, she s stuck. and the tax cuts are regarded as a massive mistake. benefit cuts is the one, and already there s a cabinet fight over that, cabinet colleagues are quite willing to say publicly they wouldn t go for that. extraordinary, at the conference itself, to have cabinet members actually saying, don t do this. because her tax cuts have already given 40 times more to people at the top than the people at the bottom. they would have done, if they hadn t. .. no, no allowing for that.
despite having been cut a bit less than the others. the social care system is almost non existent. i don t think she has any room for manoeuvre with any cuts. what s interesting is that the public polling and the focus groups are all saying, we didn t really need a tax cut, we needed our public services to work, we need schools to work. teachers are paid 8% less than they were in 2010. health service workers are paid less. you can t operate in that way, particularly when you ve got huge numbers of vacancies and a shortage of people to filljobs. so i think whichever way she turns now, she s stuck. and the tax cuts are regarded as a massive mistake. benefit cuts is the one, and already there s a cabinet fight over that, cabinet colleagues are quite willing to say publicly they wouldn t go for that. extraordinary, at the conference itself, to have
to survive, there can be no moral argument for not increasing them to survive, there can be no moral argument for not increasing them in line with the cost of. if you want to get in touch about that particular policy, or indeed the immigration policy, we are expected to hear more on that today, at the conservative conference, you can do that on twitter. let s get more on this now with kate bell, the head of economics at the tuc, which represents the majority of trade unions in england and wales. before i get onto public services, on the issue of benefit cuts, do you think the prime minister needs to make it absolutely clear as soon as possible what she is going to do on that and whether she is going to upgrade benefits in line with wages or in line with inflation? i upgrade benefits in line with wages or in line with inflation? or in line with inflation? i think she needs or in line with inflation? i think she needs to or in line with inflation? i think she needs to make or in l
this is bbc news. the headlines at 11. prime minister liz truss has not ruled out real terms benefit cuts to help pay for her government s growth plan. she s in listening mode though. there will be discussions about the way forward on commitments like benefits and how we deal with future budgets but i am very clear that going into this winter, we don t need to help the most vulnerable. we do need. chancellor of the exchequer, kwasi kwarteng, will set out his plan to get uk debt falling earlier than planned. he s expected to publish details later this month on how it will be paid for. on the trail of the people smugglers the uk government prepares to set out new rules to stop thousands