Poll: Do you support Ed Miliband's idea of giving a young people a youth allowance?
Unemployed youngsters should be stripped of state handouts unless they agree to training in vital skills, Ed Miliband is to say.
Bidding to counter Tory jibes that Labour is the "party of welfare", Mr Miliband will call for 18 to 21 year olds to be given a "youth allowance" rather than out-of-work benefits.
But the money will be conditional on them signing up to learn key skills - and they will not get it if their parents are relatively well off.
People will also have to work longer to qualify for a boosted rate of Jobseeker's Allowance, as part of moves to restore the contributory principle to the system.
The commitments, unveiled in a speech to the IPPR think-tank, come with Mr Miliband facing persistent questions about his leadership with under a year to go until the general election.
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