Miliband's muddle over benefits: Labour leader in U-turn over child benefit and vows to raise jobseeker's allowance Ed Miliband will today announce he wants to cap the welfare budget But he will also call for boost to JSA for those who have paid five years NI Tories claim that the Labour leader's stance is not credible Policy disarray: Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband who is to say he would not reverse the coalition's cuts to child benefit for the better off Ed Miliband was in disarray over welfare last night after announcing a U-turn on child benefit and vowing to raise dole payments for millions. The Labour leader will use a speech today to announce that he wants to cap the welfare budget in a bid to show voters that he can be trusted with the keys to 10 Downing Street. But Mr Miliband will call for those who have paid National Insurance for five years to get JobSeeker's Allowance of more than £100 a week - compared to £71 now. He attracted ridicule yesterday after senior sources revealed that a future Labour government would not reverse the coalition's cuts to child benefit on those paying higher rate tax, which raise £2.3bn a year. The U-turn comes three years after Mr Miliband used his first ever appearance at Prime Minister's Questions to denounce the cuts. He will today outline plans to cap "structural social security spending" - which effectively limits the amount paid out on benefits that are not linked to the fortunes of the economy such as housing benefit. Ministers will have to keep spending on those benefits to a fixed total over a three year period. Mr Miliband will say: "The next Labour government will have less money to spend. We will have to be laser focused on how we spend every single pound. Social security spending, vital as it is, cannot be exempt from that discipline. People's faith in the system has been shaken by a system that appears to give a minority of people something for nothing and other people nothing for something. But the Tories last night claimed that Labour's new stance is not credible since Mr Miliband has already opposed £83billion of welfare savings proposed by the coalition. His speech is an admission that Labour has become associated in the public mind with high spending on benefits. But Labour will not support the government's individual benefits cap, which restricts the amount of welfare paid to families to £26,000 a year. Mr Miliband will say Labour are looking at plans to offer regional caps, with one rate for London and another for the rest of the UK. And last night it also emerged that Mr Miliband has privately assured senior party figures that he won't cap welfare after all. At a meeting last month of Labour's National Executive Committee, NEC member Ann Black says she asked Mr Miliband about reports that he would put "a cap on welfare payments, either a total limit or at an individual level." She wrote: "Ed Miliband said... it was not his kind of politics, and anyway it wouldn't work." Kingston Jobcentre: Mr Miliband will call for those who have paid National Insurance for five years to get JobSeeker¿s Allowance of more than £100 a week - compared to £71 now A Tory source said: "On the same day Ed Miliband announces that Labour would cap welfare spending, we learn that while he is saying one thing to the public, he's secretly telling his party faithful that he's opposed to capping welfare.' The Labour leader will today announce that he wants to boost the "contributory principle" by paying higher benefits to people who have worked for longer. 'No credible alternative': Tory party chairman Grant Shapps said Mr Miliband is too weak to deliver the tough policies that the country needs Currently people are paid full JobSeeker's Allowance if they have two years of contributions. Raising that to five years would allow Labour to pay a rate in excess of £100 a week. Those without five years of work under their belts would receive less. Mr Miliband will say: "A longer period of qualification would mean some new claimants would have to work longer than they expected before being entitled to extra support if they lose their job. But greater support for those who have worked for a longer time, providing real recognition of their contribution. To reduce Housing Benefits costs, Labour will tell councils to negotiate bulk discounts for tenants with housing associations and private landlords and allow town hall chiefs to plough some of the savings into new house building to increase the supply of rental accommodation. Mr Miliband will also announce plans to tackle longterm worklessness by forcing single parents and those from workless households with young children to prepare for the workplace. Parents of young children currently don't get pushed towards a job until their kids are five years old. Under Labour's plans, parents of three and four year olds will be told to start drawing up CVs, practising interviews and learn new skills in preparation for when they turn five. But Tory Chairman Grant Shapps said: "Ed Miliband's much-trailed welfare speech is completely empty. Labour have opposed every one of our measures to fix the welfare system and have now shown they have no credible alternative. This Government has capped benefits so that people can never claim more in benefits than families earn in work. But Ed Miliband is too weak to deliver the tough decisions on welfare hardworking people rightly want to see. His plans would actually increase welfare spending, and mean more borrowing and more debt.