Wednesday 30 April 2014

Benefits claimants and 18-24 earn or learn policy


by Mark Corney

The latest statistics show there are 1.1m young people aged 18-24 who policy makers should be acutely concerned about.

Around half are unemployed and have looked for work in the past four weeks but are not in full time education.

The other half are inactive and have not looked work in the past four weeks and are outside of full-time education.