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Kendall will be able to redirect a significant sum – perhaps as much as £1bn – into the kind of intensive support which some claimants would need to get off benefits.

Concerns were repeatedly raised about PIP assessors lacking knowledge of specific conditions and decisions being taken without recourse to medical evidence or contacting those involved in a claimant's care.

Trump officials have taken steps to cut Social Security employees by more than 10%, which would undermine the agency’s already overstretched ability to provide customer service to claimants and beneficiaries.

The government already had concerns about the rising number of benefit claimants and Reeves has previously pledged "fundamental" reform of the welfare system.

According to the most recent figures, in the scheme created to provide redress for those in the original Group Litigation Order, 227 of 492 eligible claimants are still waiting for full and final compensation.