Benefits For Young People Should Be Repayable Loans, Say Tory MPs

‘An influential group of Tory MPs have called for young person’s unemployment benefits to be turned into repayable loans, it has been reported today.

It’s claimed that the move would provide young people with “an additional incentive to find work rather than allow the debt to build up”.

The suggestion is included in a book by the right-wing Conservative MP, Kwasi Kwarteng.

Mr Kwarteng and junior Tory MPs call for the shrinking of the welfare state and a return to a contributory benefits system – the more you pay in the more you get out.’

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