Labour says its "jobs guarantee" scheme for young unemployed people will last for the whole of next parliament, if it wins the 2015 general election.
Under the scheme 18 to 24-year-olds who have been out of work for a year will be offered a taxpayer-subsidised job lasting six months - with those who refuse losing benefits.
Labour says it would pay for this by taxing bank bonuses and changing tax rules for the pensions of high earners.
The Tories say the sums "don't add up".
The Compulsory Jobs Guarantee will be in Labour's general election manifesto next year and will be funded for the whole of the next parliament, expected to last from 2015 to 2020, shadow chancellor Ed Balls will announce later.
The BBC News Channel's chief political correspondent Norman Smith said Labour sources were stressing that the £5bn initiative was the party's first firm manifesto pledge.
But the Conservatives, he added, were insisting that Labour had already committed to spending the proceeds of a bank bonus tax on other policies, such as building 25,000 new affordable homes and reversing coalition tax changes.
Under the scheme, those aged 18-25 who have been out of work for 12 months or more would be offered 25 hours' work a week on the minimum wage and the employer would have to guarantee compulsory training.
On a visit to a building project in south London, Mr Balls will say a life on welfare will "no longer be an option"
'Starter jobs'"It's shocking that the number of young people stuck on the dole for more than a year has doubled under David Cameron," he will say. "For tens of thousands of young people who cannot find work this is no recovery at all.
End Quote Sajid Javid Financial secretary to the TreasuryLabour's sums don't add up - they are proposing yet more unfunded spending, meaning more borrowing and more taxes"
"We've got to put this right. So if Labour wins the next election we will get young people and the long-term unemployed off benefits and into work.
"The government will work with employers to help fund paid work with training for six months. It will mean paid starter jobs for over 50,000 young people who have been left on the dole for over a year by this government.
"But it will be a tough contract - those who can work will be required to take up the jobs on offer or lose their benefits. A life on benefits will simply not be an option."
Labour says the Compulsory Jobs Guarantee will also apply to adults aged 25 or over claiming Jobseeker's Allowance for two years or more.
Tax on bonusesLast month, the BBC learned that Labour had committed to fund the scheme for only a single year after the 2015 election. But this has been extended to the whole 2015-2020 period.
The party is promising to fund the scheme by repeating its 2009-10 tax on bank bonuses at the start of the next parliament, which it says would raise between £1.5bn and £2bn.
It also plans to raise another £900m each year over the course of the Parliament by restricting pensions tax relief for people earning more than £150,000 to the same rate as basic-rate taxpayers.
But Financial Secretary to the Treasury Sajid Javid said: "Labour's sums don't add up. They are proposing yet more unfunded spending, meaning more borrowing and more taxes to pay for it.
"And Labour's bank tax is a short-term political gimmick that they want to spend 10 times over.
"It's the same old Labour. Ed Miliband has no economic plan. Labour would put the recovery at risk, put jobs at risk and hardworking people would pay the price with a less secure future."
In a report on Monday, the British Chambers of Commerce said youth unemployment was "unacceptably high" and called for action in next week's Budget.
David Kern, the organisation's chief economist, told the BBC that youth unemployment was a "very serious" issue which had "economic and social consequences we want to avoid".
But he said jobless numbers among under-24s were falling as economic growth increased and the "trend was going in the right direction".
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