早上好。保守党将在周末召开党大会，基米·巴德诺克将宣布一项重大的福利改革计划：阻止许多25岁以下人士申领主要失业福利“全民信贷”。
Good morning. The Conservatives start their conference at the weekend and Kemi Badenoch is kicking off proceedings by announcing a significant plan for welfare reform – stopping many under-25s from being able to claim universal credit, the main unemployment benefit.
作为替代，他们将获得一项新的“就业启动津贴”——从第一天起就须满足相关条件，旨在帮助人们找到工作。如果六个月后他们仍没有工作，随后将转领另一项新福利——“基本生活津贴”，金额仅为此前申领额的70%。这些计划不涉及残障福利，因为它们只适用于有能力工作的人。基米·巴德诺克在接受《观察家报》采访时解释了这些计划：对于那些每天起床去上班的人来说，这很不公平：不工作的人赚得反而比他们多。
Instead, they would get a new Get to Work Allowance – which would be subject to conditions from day one intended to help people find work. If after six months they are still out of work, they would go on to a new benefit, a Subsistence Allowance, worth just 70% of their previous claims. The plans don’t relate to disability benefits, because they would only apply to people able to work. Explaining the plans in an interview with the Spectator, Kemi Badenoch said: It’s unfair to the people who get up and go to work, having others earn more than them for not working.
即使是靠福利生活的家庭也知道，这套制度已经失控。但没人愿意成为第一个从这台跑步机上下来的人。我们必须迫使人们这样做。政府必须这么做。
Even families on benefits know that the system is out of control. But no one wants to be the one to get off the treadmill first. We need to force that. Government has to do that.
保守党将这种做法称为一种“严厉的爱”方针，旨在解决约100万名年轻人处于NEET状态（未就业、未接受教育或培训）的问题。采访巴德诺克的蒂姆·希普曼则给出了更为形象的描述：“这是一个充满威胁的保姆式国家；就是一个拿着伞枪的玛丽·波平斯。”以下是该党在新闻稿中对这些计划的解释。
The Tories are describing this as a “tough love” approach designed to deal with the problem of around one million young people being Neets (not in employment, education or training). Tim Shipman, who interviewed Badenoch for the Spectator, has a more colourful description. “This is the nanny state with menaces; Mary Poppins with an umbrella gun,” he says. And here is the party’s explanation of its plans from its news release.
保守党要求所有18至24岁、试图申请“普遍福利”（universal credit）且此前未连续工作过6个月的人，必须参加“Get to Work”计划才能获得福利。参与者将获得一项新的“Get to Work津贴”，该津贴的发放取决于他们是否参与了该计划。若要免除这些要求，18至24岁的年轻人必须证明自己此前曾连续工作过6个月或更长时间（每周至少工作16小时）。因健康原因或需要承担照顾他人责任等原因而无需遵守工作相关规定的年轻人，则可免除这些要求。
The Conservatives will require all 18-24 year olds who attempt to claim universal credit and who have not previously worked for a continuous period of 6 months to participate in a Get to Work scheme in exchange for welfare. Participants will receive a new ‘Get to Work Allowance’ which is contingent on their participation in the scheme. To be exempt from these requirements 18-24 year olds will have to demonstrate that they have previously been in continuous employment for a period of 6 months or more, for a minimum of 16 hours a week. Young people on UC who are not subject to work-related requirements, such as for health reasons or due to caring responsibilities, will be exempt.
该计划将持续最多6个月。如果参与者找到了工作、获得了学徒机会或符合条件的高等教育或培训机会，他们可以提前退出计划。
The programme would last up to six months. Participants could leave earlier if they secure a job, apprenticeship or qualifying education or training place.
对于参加“Get to Work”计划的成员来说，新的“Get to Work津贴”将取代原有的“普遍福利”津贴。如果他们在6个月后仍未就业，将自动降为保守党上周宣布的“生计津贴”（Subsistence Allowance）。这项津贴的金额为当前“普遍福利”津贴的70%，并将被预存到一张名为“Back to Work”的卡片中，以防止领取者将资金用于购买酒精饮料、香烟或赌博。即便如此，他们在6个月后仍需继续遵守这些严格的规定。
For participants in the Get to Work Scheme, the new Get to Work Allowance will replace the universal credit standard allowance. After 6 months, if participants on the scheme have not entered work they will automatically move down to the new Subsistence Allowance announced last week by the Conservatives. This is paid at 70% of the current Standard Allowance and will be pre-loaded onto a Back to Work card that prevents claimants spending on alcohol, cigarettes and gambling. After six months they would continue to be subject to demanding conditions.
我们尚未收到工党的任何回应；这可能是因为该党尚未确定该如何应对这一情况。前内阁大臣艾伦·米尔本（Alan Milburn）已经完成了他对“NEET群体”（即那些既不工作也不接受教育的人）的调查报告，该报告预计将在预算案发布前公开。米尔本还计划提出一些措施，以加强对那些领取失业救济金的年轻人的限制，因为他希望阻止人们陷入长期依赖救济金的生活。
We have not heard from Labour yet, and that may be because the party is not sure yet how to respond. Alan Milburn, the former cabinet minister, has finished the final report from his inquiry into Neets and it is due to be published before the budget. He is also expected to propose measures that would impose more conditions on young people getting out-of-work benefits because he also wants to stop people being consigned to a life on benefits.
预计政府各部门会采纳他的建议。目前我们还不知道米尔本政府的具体计划细节，但这些计划可能比保守党的方案更注重激励措施（而非惩罚措施），不过两者之间也可能存在很多共同点。
And ministers are expected to adopt his plans. We don’t know the details of the Milburn/government plans, and they will probably involve more carrot than stick than the Tory ones, but there may well be quite a lot of overlap too.
我很快会发布更多关于这些计划以及与巴德诺克（Badenoch）的采访内容的文章。
I will post more on the plans, and the Badenoch interview, soon.
目前议会尚未召开会议，威斯敏斯特（Westminster）的日程安排中也没有什么重要活动。不过，“改革英国”（Reform UK）党领袖奈杰尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）今天下午2点将举行一场集会，会上他会回应安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）在会议上的发言。
Parliament is not sitting, and there is not much in the Westminster diary. But Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, does have a rally at 2pm this afternoon where he will respond to Andy Burnham’s conference speech..
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