Reform plans to scrap Pip disability benefit in £50,000,000,000 welfare overhaul

Craig Munro | Senior Politics Reporter Published August 16, 2026 2:52pm Updated August 16, 2026 2:52pm Reform UK said 2.89 million people would have their benefits removed or modified (Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire) Reform would get rid of the Pip disability welfare system if it wins power, as part of a plan to cut £50 billion from the UK’s benefits bill. Nigel Farage’s party will set out a full package of enormous savings, which would affect nearly three million people, at a press conference tomorrow morning. The party’s Treasury spokesperson Robert Jenrick said £22bn of the reforms would target the disability programme on its own. In an article for the Sunday Telegraph, he described the current situation as ‘suicidal empathy’ and said the country is facing a ‘moral and economic catast