{"id":112739,"date":"2025-10-30T19:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/112739\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T19:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:21:13","slug":"lee-anderson-announces-reforms-benefits-crackdown-on-anxiety-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/112739\/","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":112740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49290,103,61,60,410,411,43,1650,17144,1192,52345],"class_list":{"0":"post-112739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-clips","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-mentalhealth","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-reform-uk","17":"tag-uk-politics","18":"tag-video-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}