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UK ministers consider welfare changes including ending disability benefit for under-25s
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Young people in the UK who are out of work, employment and training
Ministers are considering major welfare reforms, including replacing or restricting disability benefits for under-25s with expanded employment support. The plans await two reviews; a thinktank says condition-based exclusions would not deliver major savings and calls for a wider PIP overhaul.
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Pat McFadden said Labour MPs have a moral responsibility to accept significant welfare-system changes to help more young people into work.
“Labour MPs have a moral responsibility to accept significant changes to the welfare system to help get more young people into work”
The UK government is preparing to overhaul the welfare system after two reviews are completed.
3 of 3 sources“Welfare officials, who are awaiting an official review of Pip by welfare minister Stephen Timms and the Milburn review of the youth jobs crisis”