{"id":213081,"date":"2025-06-25T12:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/213081\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T12:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:08:09","slug":"benefit-cuts-welsh-ministers-express-major-concerns-over-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/213081\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefit cuts: Welsh ministers express major concerns over plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Welsh government said that disabled people and other organisations had raised concerns that cuts to PIP would reduce access to crucial treatments and support systems, increasing the risk of &#8220;depression, self-harm and suicide&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PIP is used to purchase additional therapies, such as counselling and physiotherapy, or used to support day-to-day well being.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These purchases would no longer be affordable without Pip, leading to a deterioration in their health, wellbeing, and employment status,&#8221; the consultation response said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A survey conducted by a disabled people&#8217;s organisation &#8220;indicated feelings associated with welfare reform include anger, anxiety, terror, worry, fear, suicidal thoughts and a sense of being a burden&#8221;, while there was also concerns about a lack of proper consultation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Welsh government said that disabled people and other organisations had raised concerns that cuts to PIP would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-213081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114743928695019866","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}