The DWP reforms will affect younger people (Image: Getty)
People born in certain years could see their and payments slashed or removed entirely in radical plans to push younger people off benefits and into work.
The government is planning to tell local councils to find young people aged 16 to 21, so those born between 2003 and 2008 as of now, to find work or training as part of a ‘youth guarantee’.
secretary Liz Kendall is expected to publish a three-point plan for how to get young people back into work including drastic changes to sick benefits.
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The Get Britain Working white paper is set to outline how Liz Kendall plans to work with local councils to put the scheme into place.
According to reports from GB News, the plan will see councils work in tandem with colleges, housing associations and other local authorities to try to co-ordinate jobs opportunities and job training for those aged 16-21 and claiming benefits like Universal Credit or Personal Independence Payments (PIP).
Those claiming the benefits could lose their payments if they fail to attend an interview or take up a job offer.
A Government source told The Times: “We will expect engagement with our attractive offer of support to get on in life that will come through our white paper, which will bring in the biggest reforms to employment support in a generation.
“Conditionality is a fundamental principle of the social security system and has always existed. That’s not going to change.”
The number of disabled people who are of working age but economically inactive rose by more than a quarter of a million in a year, according to the latest figures.
Overall the number of disabled people in employment grew, but an increase in the number of working-age disabled people meant a rise in the disability economic inactivity rate – where someone self-reports that they are not in or looking for work.
Overall there were 5.5 million disabled people in employment in the UK between July and September this year, the said.