The Parliamentary Labour Party is likely to back a second attempt to reform benefits provided new money is allocated to help claimants into work, The i Paper has been told.
Labour insiders said that MPs – including rebels who scuppered Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves’ attempt to cut benefits last year – were receptive to a second go at reform.
There is renewed focus on what the Government will do about the rising benefits bill following last week’s publication of a report on young people not in employment, education or training (Neet) by the Labour grandee Alan Milburn.
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Milburn signalled that health and disability benefits could be overhauled to support young claimants into work, and that the Government should incentivise employers to give more opportunities to Neets.
