Young people out of work or not in education or training for six months will need to do unpaid work to claim benefits, David Cameron has announced.
The reforms mean people aged between 18 and 21 will have to do 30 hours of community work each week and 10 hours of job-hunting to qualify for benefits.
The work will begin from day one of their claim. It could involve preparing meals for elderly people or working at charities.
Prime Minister David Cameron said the reforms would end long-term youth unemployment and stop young people being "sucked into a life on welfare".
The scheme - called the Community Work Programme - extends already-announced Conservative plans to abolish Jobseeker's Allowance, replacing it with a Youth Allowance.
The Youth Allowance means those still on benefits after six months have to carry out community work or take up and apprenticeship,
Under the plans announced today, benefits claimants will be required to undertake an apprenticeship or community work from day one of signing on if they have been out of employment, education or training for six months prior to claiming benefits.
Mr Cameron announced the scheme during a speech in Hove saying young people needed the work experience to help them find jobs.
He said: "That well-worn path - from the school gate, down to the Job Centre, and on to a life on benefits - has got to be rubbed away."
He added: "They drift from school to worklessness to benefits and not enough is asked of them. Now of course, the best thing is for young people not to fall into inactivity in the first place.
"But if they have drifted into a life of inactivity, then it's pretty clear what these young people need. They need work experience. They need the order and discipline of turning up for work each day.
"So a Conservative government would require them to do daily community work from the very start of their claim, as well as searching for work. From day one they must play their part and make an effort."
Department for Work and Pensions research in 2013 found nearly two-thirds (64%) of benefits claimants who were put on community work schemes were still claiming benefits after two years.
The same research found that 66% of benefits claimants who did not do community work were also still claiming benefits, while only 64% of those given intensive job search support were still on benefits after two years.
However, Downing Street insists there is research to show work placements are more helpful in moving people off benefits.
Questions were also raised over the Conservative claims that it would apply to 50,000 new 18 to 21-year-olds each year.
With new laws that all youngsters will have to stay in education or training until age 18, there will be few 18 to 21-year-olds that can have been out of work for six months before signing on.
Most will sign on as soon as they leave school or training at 18 until they find employment.
A Liberal Democrat spokesman said: "These placements are not designed to help someone into work, more to punish. Just like the Tory plans to axe housing benefit for young people, it's all stick and no carrot.
"Young people should be given help and support into the workplace, help at job centres and the opportunity to get on in life, not just written off as feckless and lazy."
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