Government Celebrates High Universal Credit Take-Up by Under-25s

The government is celebrating new figures that show nearly 3,000 people started claiming its new welfare system, universal credit (UC), in the middle of last year. Between April and October 2013, 2,960 people in the Greater Manchester and Cheshire areas began accessing UC, the vast majority of whom were aged under 25. With seven in 10 of last year's new UC claimants aged under 25, the figures seem to reflect UK's high levels of current youth unemployment. Read more on 24dash.