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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.”

“…eech is a sign that the government is preparing the ground again for changes to the welfare system after Keir Starmer’s government was forced to U-turn last year on a £5bn-a-year programme of disability benefit cuts in the face of a Labour backbench…”

“Alan Milburn, the former Labour minister who is currently writing a review on youth unemployment, said the state should provide greater employment support in exchange for a new 'duty to engage'.”