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The government introduces individual job support for young people IPS youth. This scheme is intended to help young people with mental health problems go to work and reduce exclusion.- Around 21000 of the disabled are young and the number has more than doubled since 2013. This is a serious development that must be addressed. More young people drop out of their education and are left without work due to mental health problems. We are therefore initiating individual job support for young people in the hope of getting more people into work and avoiding permanent exclusion says Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Henrik Asheim.In the state budget for 2021 the government has taken the initiative to launch an experiment with individual job support for young people IPS youth. The trial is part of a strengthened follow-up of people with mental illness and or substance abuse problems of NOK 50 million. The goal of IPS-ung is that more young people with mental illness and or substance abuse problems with the help of job support get out of exclusion and into work. The trial will also strengthen the offer to young recipients of work clearance allowance AAP where about 70 percent under the age of 30 have mental illness.More young people receive disability benefitsThere are 20800 young people with disabilities 18-29 years and these make up 2.5 per cent of everyone in this age group. The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs has asked Oslo Economics and the Frisch Center to look at the reasons why more and more young people are receiving disability benefits. They have also assessed the extent to which mental health is an explanatory factor. The report shows that a large proportion of young disabled people have received mental diagnoses before they are granted disability benefits and many have had such diagnoses long before the time of disability. 70 percent of the new disabled between the ages of 25 and 29 have a mental illness.
