Young welfare claimants to get less cash and more job support under Milburn review proposals

A major government welfare review is proposing to cut benefit payments to under-25 claimants and replace them with increased job support, in one of the most significant overhauls of the system in years. A simultaneous undercover investigation exposes landlords boasting of making £2.5m a year by building property empires funded by councils desperate to house vulnerable people. Addicts are reportedly spending PIP windfalls on drink and cocaine, and an ADHD coach claimed £56,000 in taxpayer grants for personal assistants under a scheme reportedly described as 'out of control'.

Welfare courses are teaching entrepreneurs to cash in on social housing, with councils described as 'desperate' to find housing for vulnerable claimants.