Dear Rachel Reeves: If there is no alternative to discounts, at least do it carefully Toynbee Polly

IDo it before and can do it again. The “new deal” recruitment program was in the pioneering labor party in 1997. Now those lessons, which were ignored and ignored in the years of conservatives, are now revived. While the Labor Party was good in monitoring the results of its social programs accurately, the Conservative Party is governed by their intestine instincts.

In the face of high unemployment and horrific numbers of young people who were thrown and neglected, the new Youth Labor deal has worked. By 2002, it can be right The virtual elimination of unemployment in the long term for youth.

I followed the program in detail, and sat in Jobcentre interviews, chasing the results. How was that? A complete change in the position and approach, from punitive to encouragement. Employment employees have been re -trained and placed on a higher degree, to become a personal consultant to help remove obstacles that prevent work. From 18 to 24 years of four organized options they have provided another educational course, work on environmental projects or in a voluntary organization, or a job backed with employers who have been granted 60 pounds per week to take them. “No Fifth Option” was the back punishment. About 339,000 young people unemployed in the long run I found work by 2001. Deep lack of confidence in the Ministry of Labor and pensions faded, as people discovered real assistance. There were other new deals for more than the fifties, the disabled, and especially successful One for the only parents. Jobcentres was transferred from Monty wet plastic chairs and scratched interviews behind Perspex scratching to open less threatening places.

But by 2009, in the wake of bankers, nearly one million young people It fell in Jobcentres. The Labor Party, designed to not see them becomes a lost generation, interrupted to create a future job fund. The employers were paid 6500 pounds to take an additional young man for six months, which was paid at least the minimum wage, Create 105,000 jobs. (A local committee, including the unions, guaranteed that the jobs were new, not alternatives.) John, 19 -year -old, has seen unwasted qualifications from work, was surprised as his advisor in Brighton Jobcentre, showing him all kinds of good jobs suddenly available. Cost analytics and benefit people were found to spend 70 days less on the benefits 43 % estimated that it works after completing the program – a high rate compared to other plans, and deserves the cost provided. But the great ax George Osborne fell on this, as he did a lot.

Liz Kendall, Minister of Labor and Pensions, has long spoke about this approach: she knows the research well, according to what was reported, and hit the cabinet with evidence, He extracted up to one billion pounds to support the disabled At work, in addition to a million “Neets” (young people between the ages of 18 and 24 are not in education, employment or training). This is an important amount of spending on support programs, says employment experts. It should create high -quality charts. Kendall has always promised more personal assistance by reducing the coaches. You talk about the need to remove the risks, so that the disabled can confidence that they have the option to try a job but return once to the benefits if it does not work. Employers should be more flexible with different disease cases. You talk about not wasting time by harassing those who will never work, while neglecting many of those who can. But here is Hitch: The actual cash returns will take time to register in the budget responsibility office (OBR) and public treasury.

The great question is: What is the size of the ax on the advantages of the disability when its green sheet will receive next week? And most importantly, how quickly? Over time, if the plans succeed, and if the economy extends, reducing the number of claims and costs is possible. But the cuts before this success will be brutal. What’s more Economists indicate Jonathan PortsOBR reports show that expected disability discounts never add. For example, the PIP input was supposed to be a reduction, to replace the living allowance; OBR record as due, but the PIP costs have swelled. Even at the time of persecution, the slice is really for the demands suffering from sanctions, The punishment did not succeed. Chivvying may urge some people to work, but research shows that it contains Contrary to the effect on those who suffer from mental health.

The pressure here explodes elsewhere, in a semi -firm system. With basic unemployment salaries at 393.45 pounds, assembled, anyone working for a long time in a miserable state, and is likely to describe his condition in terms of medical terms. This is not fraud. It is a real expression when they apply for the advantages of the disability you raise above hunger. The country is more sick than it was, and a sediment from its neighbors, physically and mentally, says the Institute of Financial Studies (IFS) this week, with nearly a million people get more disability benefits than birth. They say it is not fake, as it matches the high “death of despair”, from drugs, drink and suicide.

Jobs Many harsh than beforeProfessor Ben Baberg Jugger – physically and emotionally, more tired, with less personal control. Efficiency savings have killed the “light work” of old people. What the Labor Party can help: NHS is better, less brutal working conditions and better care. But any brutal ax of the living levels of the hard disabled will not encourage this. The work will face a big violent reaction. Voters will not agreeWith 53 % they say these benefits mean or about the right, and only 26 % say they are very high.

No wonder that the advantages of disability are the costs of intimidating the cabinet, due to this It rises by 35 billion pounds In four years. But below alternative facts are equally correct, if the Kaleidoscope statistics are shook in another way.

Joseph Runteri Foundation told me that the total percentage of spending on the benefits of adults and children of work age is similar to 20 years ago. Here is another Caleidoscope From IFS: UK spending on the benefits of working age at work is comparable to other similar countries.

There are no billions of easy to get from the benefits budget, although a lot of repair is needed. Search elsewhere: Starmer must cancel NHS England to provide savings from this costly repetition. Whithoul should get rid of the additional employees acquired in Kofid. But there are a few painless options for large sums, because all economic options are terrible. But among all the non -palatable methods of work labor to break his electoral promises, either by borrowing or by imposing more taxes, the worst option is discounts, austerity, and to cut public services.

• Polly Toynbee is a guardian writer

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