Welfare changes under debate include ending key disability benefit for under-25s

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UK ministers are considering broad welfare reforms that could end a key disability benefit for people under 25. The plan would replace it with a multibillion-pound support package intended to help young people enter employment, as the government seeks to move more benefit recipients into work.

Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive package of 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. Multiple 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. Continue reading...