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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nina Lloyd

Young people will lose benefits if they refuse work and training, minister says

Liz Kendall will set out a package of measures on Tuesday designed to ‘get Britain working’ (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Wire)

Young people will lose their benefits if they refuse to take up work and training opportunities, a Cabinet minister has said ahead of announcing measures to cut the welfare bill.

Liz Kendall said claimants have a “responsibility” to engage with skills or employment programmes and will face sanctions if they decline to do so as part of reforms to be set out next week.

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