No 10 weighs extending under-25 disability benefit overhaul to all working ages
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Downing Street may extend plans to replace key disability benefits for under-25s with work and training to all working-age people under “participation first”, spending more on entering work while cutting some disability payments. Alan Milburn’s report due next week would swap the universal credit health element for training and end Pip for young disabled people in favour of local short-term funds, with protections for the most severe cases. Andy Burnham and other ministers reviewed widening the scheme; it could revive Labour welfare tensions after Keir Starmer’s rebellion and U-turn last year.
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