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While in the Universal Credit savings, much of the impact is generated by changes for future claimants, raising the eligibility age to 22 and halving the health payment, this is not the case for Pips.Pip payments are determined by a questionnaire about your daily life, such as your ability to prepare and eat food, wash and get dressed or communicating and reading.

Each are scored on a scale from zero - for no difficulty - to 12 - for the most severe - by a health professional.Your payment depends on the total score across all areas.The proposed change is that people will need to score at least four on one item, indicating a more severe disability in one area. Whereas currently claimants can qualify for support with a score that could describe less severe difficulties (ones and twos) across a broad range of activities.

For example, needing an aid or appliance to speak or hear counts as two points, while needing support to express or understand complex verbal information counts as four points.And needing help to wash your hair, or your body below the waist, would be awarded two points, but needing help to wash between the shoulders and waist would equate to four points.

The changes announced aim to take Pip payments away from such people from November 2026.

The government knows how many, and who they are. For now, until the Spring Statement next week, we can deduce that there are around a million people who will lose their entire £70 a week or £3,500 a year payment.The ONS said the numbers were still "official statistics in development", meaning that they may be revised in the future as more data becomes available.

Separate figures from the Home Office show more than 130,000 people were awaiting an initial decision for their asylum case as of September. The number of those claiming asylum has more than doubled since September 2021.Labour say they have hired more caseworkers to tackle the asylum backlog.

Net migration could fuel a rise in the UK population to 72.5 million by 2032, figures suggest.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has projected a population growth of 7.3% between 2022 and 2032, compared with an increase of 6.1% over the previous 10 years.