Sir Keir Starmer is being accused of 鈥渃reating a two-tier disability system鈥 after U-turning on his proposals to cut disability benefits. The UK Government has confirmed it will now make major concessions to its planned benefits reform after over 120 Labour backbenchers threatened to rebel. This now means those who currently receive personal independence payments or the health element of Universal Credit will continue to do so. Instead, the cuts will only hit future claimants. Disability benefits are devolved in Scotland as the adult disability payment, but any cuts at UK level would impact how much cash the Scottish Government gets to pay for this. The government had hoped the cuts would save the Treasury 拢5 billion a year by 2030. However Scottish MPs say this will create a system where young disabled people are left worse off than older disabled people. The Steamie newsletter brings unrivalled political analysis – subscribe here Labour backbencher Brian Leishman MP said: 鈥淭his is not 鈥榗aving in鈥. This would be a two-tier welfare programme that would still put people into poverty. 鈥淭his is not the society we should try to build. I will not support this.鈥 Stephen Flynn MP, the SNP鈥檚 Westminster leader, said: 鈥淜eir Starmer is on the brink of creating a two-tier disability system where the young will be treated worse than the old. 鈥淭he message from the Labour Party is clear – if you have an accident that causes a disability, develop a disability over time or if you have a child with a disability you will receive less support than those who have come before you. 鈥淚 was a perfectly fit and healthy kid when I collapsed at school before spending 18 years on crutches – to think that a child in the same position now would be treated differently than I was, simply to save the Prime Minister鈥檚 reputation, is disgusting. 鈥淚f these rebels truly care about the cause in the way that they suggest, then they will tell the Prime Minister to think again, again.鈥 The Scottish Greens have also said it is 鈥渁stonishing鈥 the Labour government is pushing ahead with 鈥渟uch cruel and inhuman cuts鈥. Maggie Chapman MSP said: 鈥淲e鈥檝e seen over the past 11 months of Starmer in Number 10 that he鈥檚 nothing more than a Tory in Labour clothing. 鈥淲e must keep up the pressure to ensure that new claimants get what they need, because these reforms will still hurt thousands of disabled people around the country for generations to come.鈥 This is the third U-turn the Prime Minister has been forced to make in just a month after reversing the government鈥檚 decisions on cutting winter fuel payments and on a grooming gangs scandal. A vote on the new proposals will take place in the House of Commons on Tuesday. UK Care Minister Stephen Kinnock told BBC Breakfast he is confident MPs will now pass the welfare bill.