The Labour leadership have allowed benefits to get out of hand (Image: Getty) The Labour Party is considering paying families on benefits hundreds of pounds-a-month to urge their children to start apprenticeships. It comes as the Government’s work tsar Alan Milburn has warned that the benefits system is holding back teenagers from working because of perverse incentives. Mr Milburn revealed that almost one million young people are not in education, employment or training (Neets), making a reset “absolutely essential”. He also shockingly revealed: “For every £25 that we spend keeping young people on benefits, we spend only £1 helping them get into work through employment support.” Ministers fear families on welfare were discouraging their teenage children from leaving full-time education and taking up apprenticeship courses because they would lose handouts such as child benefit and parts of universal credit. In the worst-case hypothetical scenario found by the social security advisory committee, a single parent whose disabled child was the last person on the benefit claim would receive £339 a week less if the teenager started …