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Benefits U-turn: How much will it cost?

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Labour 's original plan to reform the welfare system was a hasty effort to try to make billions of pounds of cuts to a rapidly growing bill.

Latest deal appears to row back more than half of the annual 5bn earmarked saving from the welfare reforms, by 2029-30 .

The planned cut to disability personal independent payment (Pip) eligibility was set to raise the bulk of this saving, 4.5bn .

But now the changes will apply only to new claimants from November 2026 .

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