2026-10-01 · World news | The Guardian
🔮 The extra support will include subsidised jobs for younger people, more targeted “back to work” schemes and support with mental health, as part of a drive to help more of the nation’s one million 16 to 24-year-olds not in work, employment or training (Neets) back into the workplace.
As part of the same package, officials are looking at a new system to replace the Pip, which is claimed by four million people, after attempts to change existing eligibility criteria were rejected by MPs last year.
One possible plan is for a separate regime to apply to the under-25 agegroup, with reduced or withdrawn entitlements – although those with the most severe and debilitating disabilities would not lose any money.
More broadly, officials are working up plans under the replacement system for a new set of eligibility criteria and assessments for the extra costs of disability, and looking at whether this would apply to all claimants of working age, or those below a cut-off point such as 50 or 60. assertive
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