The Last Leg's Adam Hills says 'cuts makes the disabled look like scroungers'

The Last Leg presenter Adam Hills has criticised the chancellor's disability allowance cuts saying they make "the disabled look like scroungers".

It's after George Osborne announced plans to save £1.3bn by reducing disabled people's Personal Independence Payments.

The government admitted 640,000 people could be affected by 2020 but said that it would make the system fairer.

Hills was born without a right foot and wears a prosthesis.

He told Newsbeat: "Saying to disabled people we're going to take away some of your allowance to make you work harder, is like saying to someone with depression you just need to cheer up."

His criticism comes a day after the chancellor's Budget announcement.

Watch Newsbeat's video explaining the disability cuts.

Mr Osborne defended the plans: "We are increasing the support, increasing the money that is available to disabled people so that money is going to go up... because we've got to make a sure we help the most vulnerable in our society."

But Hills isn't convinced.

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith announced plans for the cuts earlier this year.

"I'd love to sit down with Iain Duncan Smith and say, firstly show me how you're helping disabled people," says Adam.

"And if it turns out that he is, I'd like to then say, 'how about you just change your bedside manner?'"

"If you're a doctor who's trying to make someone feel better and you're giving them medicine, you don't make them feel worse about themselves at the same time."

Those who receive PIP are assessed using a points system to determine what level of help they receive.

Claimants can get between £21.80 and £139.75 per week.

An independent review found that the assessment criteria "may not be working as planned" and a subsequent review found a "significant number of people" were likely to be getting the benefit despite having minimal-to-no ongoing daily living extra costs, the Department for Work and Pensions said.

Labour's calling it a "war on the disabled."

A second independent review of PIP is due by April 2017.

The trio Grimmy would love to go to the pub with: Alex Brooker, Josh Widdicombe and Adam Hills spoke to Newsbeat after appearing on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show

Adam added: "The budget looks like it's saying people who are out there working, we're going to reward them, and people who have got their own business we're going to reward them and people who can't work because they have a disability you're being punished."

"Maybe the government amongst the figures are doing something amazing for disabled people, but they're not telling us."

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