'Shameful' More Spent on Benefits Than Jobs for Young People, Says Milburn The numbers are stark: according to Alan Milburn's review into youth inactivity, the government spends 25 times as much on benefits for young people as it does on supporting them into work.
This disparity is a symptom of a deeper problem that has been festering for years.
Nearly a million young people are neither in work nor education (Neets), a statistic that should be deeply troubling to policymakers and the public alike. The figure of 957,000 Neets represents 12.