A New Welfare Clampdown Will Force Housebound And Mentally Ill People To Work From Home 

People housebound with physical and mental conditions will be told to look for employment they can do from home or face having their benefits cut under hardline welfare reforms.

Under plans to be unveiled by Rishi Sunak, they will be told that being unable to leave home is no obstacle to finding work, thanks to modern technology.

A newspaper reported that new claimants from 2025 could lose handouts worth up to £4,680 a year because they can no longer be written off as unable to work.

It’s expected to form part of a ‘carrot and stick’ approach to welfare, with Tory sources saying that Rishi Sunak had backed away from a reduction on overall benefits, saying the emphasis would be on ‘reform, not cuts’.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has examined whether to break with convention and increase benefits by less than the 6.7 per cent inflation figure recorded in September.

Under one plan, benefits would have been ‘uprated’ next year by the lower October inflation figure of 4.6 per cent, saving the Treasury about £2 billion.

However, a source said that the full rise had now been considered ‘affordable’ after better-than-expected projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility were delivered on Friday.

The State Pension is also now likely to be increased in line with the triple lock, the commitment to increase State Pensions by the highest out of average earnings growth, inflation or 2.5 per cent, meaning an 8.5 per cent increase.

In a major address yesterday, Rishi Sunak indicated that the Government would look for savings instead of taking steps to drive down the number of people claiming unemployment benefits.

The carrot and stick package will include additional support and training for those wanting a job, coupled with more stringent sanctions for those who refuse to look for work, who could have their benefits stopped entirely.

The Prime Minister said that getting people off welfare and into work would allow the Government to continue to deliver a ‘generous safety net’ for those who can’t work. Rishi Sunak said that ‘work, not welfare, was the best route out of poverty’.

He added that right now, around two million people of working age were not working at all and that this was a national scandal and an enormous waste of human potential.

He said that we must do more to support those who can work to do so, and they would clamp down on welfare fraudsters because the system must be fair for the taxpayers who fund it.

This is a total cop-out by our government which is still letting boat people into our country with no deterrant.

It’s a money-making scheme for the Tories, and they’re not going to end it whilst they’re making money from it, and thanks to our government boats have been arriving in their masses under Rishi Sunak and Boris, who put them in 4-star hotels, and what does Rishi Sunak suggest these people do from home?

Obviously, there are people out there who will never be able to work, but there are some people out there who haven’t worked a day in their life and are simply slothful and can’t be bothered to find work, but can you blame them? They realise that working will not benefit them in the long run, because what are they actually working for? They will eventually get old, be put into a care home, have their money taken from them and live in a small room, mainly in seclusion. Wow, that was worth working for!

We should be shipping illegals back to their own country, we would save millions, if not billions of pounds, but the Government won’t do that because they need their vote.

Perhaps we should send the MPs away as well to remove our National Debt because they hide behind our immigration to take the spotlight off their ineptitude and deceit.