[Jamesy]

Agree with the housing benefit (as long these young people have parents/guardians with homes to live in).

Although scrapping JSA in favour of a "Youth Allowance" doesn't look like it will make any difference. It will pretty much be the same as JSA judging by that article, if you want to get your benefits you do community work, training or some other form of free work with nothing in return apart from £50 or less a week. These things already do not work for people on JSA (under the bullying do-this-or-no-benefit scheme they do in every Job Centre), so shifting the young to an identical system under a difference name seems a waste of money to me.

I would rather see investment made in what already exists and make it better. The money that will be wasted on a new "Youth Allowance" benefit could be used to restructure the JSA and make it actually useful to the unemployed. Instead of the current system where you get literally zero help and get spoken to like you're a convicted criminal.