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The Chancellor offered no hope today to victims of a cruel disability benefit cut despite pleas from his own party.
Philip Hammond did not mention once the £30-a-week cuts to Employment and Support Allowance as he revealed spiralling national debt in his Autumn Statement.
Tory backbenchers had joined a plea to delay the cuts to people deemed fit for 'work-related activity' from April 2017 until there could be more support.
But while the Chancellor made a separate climbdown over separate cuts to Universal Credit, he did not help the 500,000-strong group of ESA claimants.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/esa-disability-benefit-cut-victims-9318408
Philip Hammond did not mention once the £30-a-week cuts to Employment and Support Allowance as he revealed spiralling national debt in his Autumn Statement.
Tory backbenchers had joined a plea to delay the cuts to people deemed fit for 'work-related activity' from April 2017 until there could be more support.
But while the Chancellor made a separate climbdown over separate cuts to Universal Credit, he did not help the 500,000-strong group of ESA claimants.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/esa-disability-benefit-cut-victims-9318408