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Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes (opens the original)
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Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment Ministers are working up sweeping plans for welfare changes including scrapping a key disability benefit for under-25s and replacing it with a multibillion-pound package of support to get into work, the Guardian has learned. Whitehall sources said the package of changes under debate was much bigger than previously thought, as Andy Burnham’s government hopes to persuade more people on benefits back in
Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes - AOL (opens the original)
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Ministers are working up sweeping plans for welfare changes including scrapping a key disability benefit for under-25s and replacing it with a multibillion-pound package of support to get into work, the Guardian has learned. Whitehall sources said the package of changes under debate was much bigger than previously thought, as Andy Burnham’s government hopes to persuade more people on benefits back into work. The move could be fraught with political danger after last year’s dramatic welfare rebel
âWe have time to make our caseâ: Labour insiders are confident Burnham can sell his social care reforms (opens the original)
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Analysts believe PM has a âgolden opportunityâ to offer older people better protection in return for weakening the triple lock guarantee It is a brave party leader who is prepared to go into an election promising a multibillion-pound new public service â likely to be funded by tax rises or holding back increases in the state pension. But Andy Burnhamâs colleagues are excited about the confident promise of new social care system that seven previous prime ministers have failed to deliver.
Changing UK benefits for young people a âmoral crusadeâ, says minister (opens the original)
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Pat McFadden urges Labour MPs to back overhauls, amid signs party looking to cut payments for some 16- to 24-year-olds Labour MPs have a moral responsibility to accept significant changes to the welfare system to help get more young people into work, the work and pensions secretary has said. In a sign he is looking to overhaul the welfare state, Pat McFadden said it was time for Labour to ârenewâ the system first created by the Clement Attlee government and given a new deal by New Labour. Th
Changing UK benefits for young people a ‘moral crusade’, says minister - AOL (opens the original)
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Labour MPs have a moral responsibility to accept significant changes to the welfare system to help get more young people into work, the work and pensions secretary has said. In a sign he is looking to overhaul the welfare state, Pat McFadden said it was time for Labour to “renew” the system first created by the Clement Attlee government and given a new deal by New Labour. The cabinet minister said there would be “decisions to make and responsibilities to take” after two reviews of the system are
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