{"id":259315,"date":"2025-10-29T19:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/259315\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:44:08","slug":"lee-anderson-announces-reforms-benefits-crackdown-on-anxiety-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/259315\/","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":259316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[123079,97,259,260,3,111,7675,6646,16541],"class_list":{"0":"post-259315","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-mental-health","11":"tag-mentalhealth","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-reform-uk","15":"tag-uk-politics","16":"tag-video-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}