Write to letters@thetimes.co.ukSir, The proposed benefit reforms you report (“1m to have disability benefit cut by Labour”, Mar 15) appear designed to target people with mental health problems, based on the flawed belief that mental health problems come with lower additional costs. Reducing PIP (personal independence payment) for people with mental health problems means taking away access to additional therapies, limiting people’s ability to get to work or appointments, and removing the support for basic daily living that people often need. Cutting benefits doesn’t make mental problems or the costs to the state disappear. For many it means being driven into poverty, which we know is toxic for mental health. The result is worsening physical and mental health, a shifting of costs

Source: The Times March 17, 2025 00:10 UTC