{"id":248641,"date":"2025-10-29T20:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/248641\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:40:09","slug":"lee-anderson-announces-reforms-benefits-crackdown-on-anxiety-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/248641\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Anderson announces Reform&#8217;s benefits crackdown on &#8216;anxiety generation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Anderson has revealed Reform&#8217;s plans to scrap Pip payments for people with anxiety disorders which he claims would save \u00a33.2billion per year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the press conference, Mr Anderson said: &#8220;A Reform UK Government would fully remove those with anxiety disorders but not serious psychiatric disorders from Pip eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This would save the Exchequer \u00a33.2billion per annum based on last year&#8217;s figures and we will also make sure that every single assessment is done face-to-face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WATCH ABOVE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee Anderson has revealed Reform&#8217;s plans to scrap Pip payments for people with anxiety disorders which he claims&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,106472,84,393,394,44,714,116200,18461,51247],"class_list":["post-248641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-clips","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-reform-uk","tag-uk-politics","tag-video-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}