The disability benefits system faces being overhauled to support young claimants into work, the Government’s joblessness tsar has indicated.
Alan Milburn, who is conducting a review of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet), indicated that personal independent payments (PIP) should be reformed so it is not purely based around cash help, but provides targeted support to help jobless claimants into work.
Milburn signalled the coming shake-up with the publication on Thursday of a damning report which concludes there has been a “whole system failure” across welfare, education and health which is leaving a growing number of young people permanently “detached” from the world of work.
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He published his interim report on the crisis on the day that official figures revealed that in the first quarter of 2026, the number of people aged 16 and 24 who were Neet had risen above one million for the first time in more than 12 years.
