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The Department for Work and Pensions is set to strip benefits claimants of payments within 18 months in a crackdown. Young people could be stripped of benefits if they turn down job after 18 months under a shake-up from the DWP .

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has pledged to abolish long-term youth unemployment as she says that people are being stripped of their “dignity” by welfare dependence.

Ms Reeves said: “I will never be satisfied while too many people’s potential is wasted, frozen out of employment, education, or training. There’s no defending it.

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“It’s bad for business, bad for taxpayers, bad for our economy, and it scars people’s prospects throughout their lives. At the spending review, I pledge

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