MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY May God bless and keep you always May your wishes all come true. May you always do for others And let others do for you May you build a ladder to the stars Climb on every rung May you always do for others And let others do for you (C) B. Dylan.

Sounds like a reason to scrap the UC taper to me (perhaps increasing Work Allowance a bit). So people with higher incomes don't continue to get benefits. Also, now the distraction of the 2 child benefit cap is gone ensure the overall benefit cap does it job. Resolution Foundation

16 YEAR OLD SCHOOL-LEAVERS It is welcome Pat McFadden is reinventing a version of the 1997 New Deal for Young People (but need to get the design right) But this plan & child poverty focus has left a gap in between of help for the most disadvantaged who get no help. BBC News (UK)

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Pat McFadden Key to the success is a focus on the individual, hope & optimism. It's why the central & crucial element to this initiative is the personal work coach. To stress that there are always all kinds of jobs coming up all the time. And helping individual to find their job & get hired