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“It means that people won’t eat,” says Chief Executive of the UK charity Turn2us Thomas Lawson, as the Labour government announces cuts to disability welfare payments set to save more than £5 billion by 2030. Alicia Cartwright, who suffers from bipolar disorder and receives PIP, a disability benefit, believes the reforms are "going to cause people to have relapses”. Labour insists the cutbacks are essential to help fill a black hole of £22 billion ($29 billion) it claims to have inherited from the Conservatives after last year's election win. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES