Reform proposes £50bn welfare bill cut with changes to disability payments system Pip

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1. Sat, 15 August 2026

   1 report
   • bbc.co.uk21:19first to reportedited after publishing
     Reform proposes £50bn welfare bill cut with changes to disability payments system Pip

     previouslyReform UK plan would overhaul welfare system with £50bn in savings

     The party's proposed changes were they to come to power include a replacement for the disability payments system Pip.

2. Sun, 16 August 2026

   5 reports
   • lbc.co.uk07:50
     Reform planning to slash £50billion from benefits bill and scrap Pip

     The new plans, which are set to be released in full on Monday, would affect nearly three million people.

   • express.co.uk21:00
     'Britain is being bled dry as welfare bill completely out of control'

     OPINION: Reform UK's Lee Anderson warns that the UK benefits bill is completely out of control

   • express.co.uk21:00
     Reform UK pledges to ban foreign nationals from claiming almost all benefits

     The move is part of plans to slash the welfare bill by £50 billion a year

   • The Guardian World21:00
     Reform accused of targeting the most vulnerable with £50bn benefit cut

     Robert Jenrick takes aim at disabled people and foreign nationals after saying UK guilty of ‘suicidal empathy’ Reform UK has been accused of excluding the most vulnerable from society and punishing non-Britons living in the UK as it prepared to outline £50bn of cuts to benefits for disabled people and foreign nationals. Robert Jenrick, Reform’s finance spokesperson, will detail the plans for £20bn of cuts to disability benefits overall, as well as another £21bn from stopping foreign nationals –...

   • mirror.co.uk21:30
     'Cowardly' Reform blasted over welfare plot 'that would spark new Brexit clash'

     Nigel Farage's Reform UK has been savaged over 'cowardly' welfare plans to strip foreign nationals of their rights and breach the terms of the UK's Brexit deal with the European Union

3. Mon, 17 August 2026

   6 reports
   • hulldailymail.co.uk10:29edited after publishing
     Reform UK benefit changes explained - millions to lose out

     previouslyThe party says it would reduce the benefits budget by £50billion

     The party says it would reduce the benefits budget by £50billion

   • The Guardian World14:54edited after publishing
     Jenrick says Reform would make long-term benefits claimants clean up high streets – as it happened

     previouslyJenrick says Reform would make long-term benefits claimants clean up high streets – UK politics live

     Party’s ‘welfare to work’ policy would force long-term claimants to do community work or face losing benefits Robert Jenrick went on to say that long-term benefits claimants will be made to clean up their local high street and do charity work or face having their benefits taken away. He said as part of the party’s “welfare to work” policy, long-term claimants, who are fit to work, will be forced to do 20-hours of work a week in the community. They’ll work to clean up high streets and parks, to...

   • RMF24 (Poland)16:28
     Polacy bez świadczeń w Wielkiej Brytanii? Reform UK chce zmian ws. unijnych migrantów

     Polacy bez świadczeń w Wielkiej Brytanii? Reform UK chce zmian ws. unijnych migrantów

   • irishtimes.com16:36
     ‘No British citizenship, no benefits.’ Kind of.

     Reform UK unveils tough proposals to save £50 billion. But what about the Irish?

   • Index.hr (Croatia)16:51
     Britanska desnica želi ukinuti naknade svim strancima. I građanima EU-a

     BRITANSKA stranka Reform UK predlaže ukidanje socijalnih naknada za strane državljane, uključujući građane EU, radi uštede od 24.6 milijardi eura, što bi zahtijevalo nove pregovore o Brexitu.

   • The Guardian World19:11
     Huge number of children would fall into poverty under Reform’s benefits plans, say campaigners

     Party wants to cut £50bn from UK welfare bill but charity says proposals would cause ‘horrific levels of destitution’ Hundreds of thousands of children would be tipped into poverty and destitution under plans unveiled by Reform UK to slash £50bn a year from the UK benefits bill, campaigners have warned. The warnings came after Reform published plans to drastically reduce disability payments, ban non-UK citizens from claiming benefits and introduce compulsory 20 hours a week unpaid workfare for...

4. Tue, 18 August 2026

   1 report
   • The Guardian World23:01
     Do not cut benefits for disabled young people, dozens of UK charities urge ministers

     More than 40 charities write to Pat McFadden and review head Alan Milburn over fears of stricter eligibility rules More than 40 of the UK’s leading charities have warned ministers against imposing tougher benefit sanctions or cuts on disabled young people, as the government considers how to encourage more young people into work. The charities raised concerns that an imminent review of young people and work by Alan Milburn could bring in stricter eligibility rules for keeping disability benefits...

5. Thu, 20 August 2026

   2 reports
   • thelocal.es12:45
     Could Brits in Spain really lose their benefits if Reform UK wins power?

     Nigel Farage’s Reform has pledged to ban foreigners in Britain from receiving benefits if elected. This would include Europeans living in the UK, leading to suggestions that the EU would retaliate with similar measures for Brits residing across the bloc.

   • The Guardian World17:36
     Reform’s new economic adviser has called for end of pensioners’ triple lock

     Exclusive: Mitchell Palmer has also argued for privatising the NHS and immigration as way of cutting poverty Reform UK’s new economic adviser has previously called the pensions triple lock unsustainable, advocated privatising the NHS and welcomed migration as a poverty alleviation tool, the Guardian can reveal. Robert Jenrick, Reform’s economic spokesperson, has appointed Mitchell Palmer, a rightwing economist at the free-market Adam Smith Institute, as one of his key aides. Continue reading...

6. Sun, 23 August 2026

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   • The Guardian World21:00
     Reform says it would put foreign-born UK citizens lower on social housing list

     UK-born married couples under 35 with children would get priority under proposals to be outlined by Farage’s party British citizens who were born abroad would be made to wait longer for social housing under proposals to be announced by Reform UK on Monday. Nigel Farage’s party will announce the policy at a press conference in London. Under the policy, people born in the UK and young married couples with children would be given priority for social housing. Continue reading...

7. Mon, 24 August 2026

   1 report
   • The Guardian World17:40
     Reform would evict social housing tenants over unkempt gardens

     Plan part of a wider policy to remove foreign nationals from social homes and prioritise young British-born couples Social housing tenants will be evicted if they fail to keep their gardens well maintained under a Reform UK government, the party has announced. Lee Anderson, the party’s chair, said that if Reform came to power it would insist that those in social rented homes would be required to keep their properties decorated and gardens looked after. Continue reading...

8. Tue, 25 August 2026

   1 report
   • Politico Europe21:00
     Nigel Farage wants to scrap GDPR for the UK

     Reform UK said GDPR has "strangled small businesses and tech firms."

9. Fri, 28 August 2026

   2 reports
   • express.co.uk12:54
     Reform to ban people from voting if they don't speak English

     Nigel Farage's party announces dramatic changes to elections

   • express.co.uk12:57
     Readers debate if people who can't speak English be banned from voting

     Have your say in our online poll on Reform UK's plans for changes to the electoral system

10. Thu, 3 September 2026

    1 report
    • birminghammail.co.uk10:37
      DWP could change Local Housing Allowance rates for first time since 2024

      Kemi Badenoch has put forward plans for sweeping benefits cuts to bring down the welfare bill.

11. Mon, 7 September 2026

    1 report
    • Bloomberg Politics17:46
      Reform Plans to Improve Offer to Lure the Rich Back to Britain

      Reform UK plans to bolster its plans to attract the rich back to the UK should it win power at the next general election, the insurgent party’s Treasury spokesman, Robert Jenrick, said.

12. Tue, 8 September 2026

    1 report
    • The Guardian World04:00
      Majority of Tory and Reform voters do not back cuts to disability benefits, survey finds

      Nearly half of respondents say spending on personal independence payments should be increased There is little appetite for cuts to disability benefits even among Conservative and Reform voters, and proposals to reduce spending could prove politically risky, according to an authoritative national survey. The British Social Attitudes (BSA) report found that while support for welfare spending as a whole had dipped sharply in recent years, just 7% of respondents backed cuts to disability benefits –...