Reform MP Lee Anderson has admitted to beforehand “gaming the system” to assist folks safe advantages.
The Ashfield MP made the revelation throughout a press convention, explaining his previous position on the Citizens Advice Bureau earlier than coming into politics.
“Before I came into politics, I worked for the Citizens Advice Bureau,” he stated.
“We used to fill the form out for clients … I can tell you now, we were gaming the system.”
Mr Anderson described the method as “a competition” between the adviser and the Department for Work and Pensions.
He stated he knew advisers on the organisation who had “a 100 per cent hit rate” on advantages types and will get “the fittest man in Ashfield” onto the private independence cost (PIP).
Reform UK says it needs to cease folks exploiting the system as a part of its welfare lower proposals.
Young folks on incapacity advantages are being “tossed onto a scrap heap”, Reform UK head of coverage Zia Yusuf has stated.
The get together is setting out how it could finish PIP for claimants with “non-serious” anxiousness problems and introduce extra common reassessments for many who qualify.
Mr Yusuf advised a central London press convention: “The caseload for new claims for under-25s in this country on PIP have tripled in five years.
“So we are betraying our young people. Reassessments are basically not happening anymore. These young people are … being basically tossed onto a scrap heap for the rest of their lives.”
Mr Anderson stated: “The alarm clock generation is now being replaced by an anxiety generation.”
Instead of going to work, they’re “staying at home all day, courtesy of taxpayer-funded employment support, loans and personal independence payments”, he stated.
Reform stated the welfare cuts would save round £9bn per yr by 2029.