Those under 22 with long -term diseases or disabled people will no longer be able to claim a universal credit under government plans.
It was one of the measures announced by the work secretary Liz Kendall in a bombing of the service system which, according to her, would reduce the bill on social protection of the United Kingdom.
Some 66,000 18 to 21 years are currently demanding the advantage and the money saved by snatching it will be reinvested in training for young people, said the government.
Kendall said that the reforms will mean “equity” for sick and long -term disabled people, but that handicap activists have qualified “brutal and reckless” measures.
As part of the current system, people over the age of 18, but under the age of state retirement in England, in Wales and Scotland, can obtain incapacity services in addition to the universal credit if the Ministry of Labor and Pensions (DWP) assesses them as too sick to work.
However, in an article published Tuesday by DWP, he proposed to increase this age to 22 years.
The document also proposed to increase the age at which people can claim the invalidity provision of adults, known as Personal Independence Payment (PIP), against 18.
The government is looking for comments on proposals alongside other reforms suggested in the White Paper before the end of June.
None of the reforms would affect Northern Ireland, which has a different system where most of the benefits are paid through jobs and benefits managed by the communities department.
Reforms are part of a broader push by the workforce to reduce spending by reducing the number of people in incapacity benefits, which should reach a record by the end of the decade.
Experts claim that the increase is due to a combination of worst mental health from the pandemic and a higher retirement age, which means that some claim in incapacity services.
Starmer said he was “not ready to step back and do nothing while millions of people – especially young people – who have the potential to work and live an independent life, are rather trapped in work and abandoned by the system”.
However, Disability Rights UK said that “these reforms are not intended to support people with disabilities at work, but to make brutal and reckless cuts”.
