Government’s back-to-work policy for young people criticised as contradictory
The government is cutting benefits for young people to encourage work despite them being unable to work due to health conditions.
A policy aimed at getting young people back into employment through benefit reductions faces criticism for its apparent contradiction. The criticism centres on stopping benefits to incentivise work for people who are on health-related income support specifically because they are unable to work.
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The back to work policy for young people that ‘makes absolutely no sense’
Opinion: We’re stopping their benefit to incentivise them to work, but we know they’re too sick to work. That’s why they’re on the HCID to begin with… right…