Accused of “overstepping their mark”, Peers in the House of Lords have reluctantly backed down in their battle with MPs over cuts to disabled people’s benefits. The cuts to benefits for sick and disabled people will now go ahead, after Lords were forced to back down in their opposition to Government plans. The Lords had defeated the government for a second time earlier this month again over the bill which proposed to cut £30 a week from the benefits of ill and disabled people who have been found unfit to work. One peer described today as a “black day for disabled people” as Lords were forced to accept the benefit cuts The Independent reports: But Lords in the upper chamber ran out of options after the Speaker of the Commons attached a “financial privilege” to the Bill. The privilege can be used by the Commons as grounds for overruling any Lords proposal that has a cost implication. “This is a black day for disabled people,” warned the independent crossbencher Lord Low of Dalston, during the debate on Monday evening. He added: “The Commons have spoken decisively and we must now bow to their wishes, but we do so under protest.” [...]