Liz Kendall says young people will have a responsibility to take up new opportunities for "earning or learning".

'If people repeatedly refuse to take up the training or work responsibilities, there will be sanctions on their benefits.'

Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall is set to outline Labour's welfare reforms to cut the benefits bill next week

Liz Kendall said claimants have a "responsibility" to engage with skills or employment programmes and will face sanctions if they decline to do so as part of reforms to be set out next week.

Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall said that claimants had a 'responsibility' to take a job or engage with training programmes in return for their benefits.

Young people who receive Universal Credit or Personal Independence Payment (PIP) who refuse to take up jobs or training will lose their benefits in the government’s crackdown on worklessness, Liz Kendall has said.