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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Patrick Butler and Will Parman

Severely disabled young people should get fast-track access to benefits, Milburn says

Alan Milburn at an event in December 2025
The former Labour MP Alan Milburn led a review into youth unemployment amid a crisis in the UK where nearly 1 million are not in education, employment or training. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

Young people whose complex disabilities mean they have little prospect of getting a paid job should get fast-track access to disability benefits, an official review of youth employment will say.

The review, by the former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn, will say 16- to 24-year-olds with the most severe lifelong needs should be guaranteed swift and unconditional benefit support rather than having to prove they cannot work.

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