Item 27: Member Engagement

 

Question from Cllr Bruno De Oliveira

 

Chair, given the government’s planned tightening of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) eligibility, the halving of health-related Universal Credit for new claimants, and the withdrawal of incapacity top-ups for under-22s, could you explain to our residents how these austerity-driven reforms will affect the lived realities of disabled and chronically ill residents in deprived local areas of Brighton and Hove—many of whom already experience systemic exclusion from the labour market?