
‘Young people are to be banned from leaving school and signing straight on to the dole.
Jobless under-21s will be told to do 16 hours a week work experience, training or community work to end the ‘culture of worklessness’.
Chancellor George Osborne also set out details of how future governments would set a cap on total welfare spending, and will be forced to justify allowing benefits to spiral out of control.’
But it stops short of his plan to strip benefits from the under-25s, which was vetoed by Nick Clegg.
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