Axing health benefits for under-22s could push many into poverty, warn charities

Áine Fox, Press Association Social Affairs Correspondent Proposals to make health welfare benefits unavailable for people aged under 22 could push many into poverty, campaigners have warned as they urged a “progressive approach to reform” of the system. Dozens of charities have written to ministers and the author of a

Dozens of charities have urged ministers to focus on support and opportunity instead of ‘the failed punitive approaches of the past’