DWP to take people off benefits but offer them three things instead

NewsCost Of LivingDWPDWP has received the first recommendations from Milburn09:00, 07 Aug 2026The Department for Work and Pensions is to start implementing recommendations from Alan Milburn as it attempts to grapple with the ballooning benefits bill.‌The DWP has received the first recommendations from Milburn, the Labour Party grandee tasked with looking into the Neet - not in employment, education or training - crisis. The first of the tasks will be to instruct schools to identify at-risk children at primary school.‌The move comes as the Neet crisis spirals, with the DWP intent on getting welfare claimants aged 16 to 24 off benefits and into the workplace. Milburn has reflected on the changes that lie ahead in an update today (Friday August 7).‌READ MORE Sick pay and parental leave propos