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Those aged under 22 will no longer be able to claim the incapacity benefit top-up to universal credit under these proposals.

One used to be known as incapacity benefit.

About two fifths of new incapacity benefit claimants under 25 came directly from education.

Around 93% of incapacity benefit claimants are not in work and the same is true of 80% of PIP claimants.

But you can only receive incapacity benefit if your income and savings are below a certain level, so freezing payments would impact people who are worse off.