Britain eyes welfare cuts to tackle surge in youth unemployment - WKZO
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The UK Labour government is preparing proposals to restrict youth sickness and disability benefits for under-25s to fund back-to-work programmes, as part of efforts to address high youth unemployment and the nearly 1 million young people not in work, education or training. The article discusses how many NEETs report health conditions that make employment harder and compares Britain's approach to disability-related employment support with other European countries like the Netherlands.
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By David Milliken LONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) โ Faisa Omar applied for more than 500 jobs in the UK and got nowhere โ a slog she likened to โshouting into the voidโ. It took a 10-week training course, tailored to the green energy sector, to finally land her a job within a month. Her story is one the Labour government hopes to replicate on a much bigger scale, as it prepares to receive a report and prโฆ
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