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The top five jobs that 16-21-year olds wanted to do when they were older remained unchanged. Teaching ranked in the top five jobs for 22-29-year olds in 2017. Professions have changed over the year with IT professionals soaring by 2017, however const...

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Esther McVey today urges parents with children under 12 to ensure they receive the valuable National Insurance credits which may improve their State Pension income. Some parents may inadvertently be missing o...

From 27 September 2018, the Universal Credit live service helpline will be open from Monday to Friday, between 9am and 4pm. The change to the opening hours comes ahead of the planned closure of the live service by spring 2019. The number of people co...

Success for new Find a job service Forty million job searches have been made through Find a job since it was launched in May 2018. The service lets people advertise, search and apply for jobs for free. More than half a million jobseekers now have ver...

Yesterday at the Labour Party Conferance, John Healey, the shadow housing secretary, proposed the abolition of legislation permitting private landlords to evict tenants without reason. Section 21 notices allow a landlord to provide notice to their te...

Labour is going to consider scrapping the government's controversial benefit reforms, Universal Credit, which have been accused of pushing thousands of people into poverty Asked whether she would scrap it, Ms Greenwood told The Mirror newspaper: "We'...

Time is running out for celebrities and sports stars to avoid huge fines after they avoided tax by replacing ‘income’ with ‘loans’.  From this Sunday, September 30, anyone who has used a ‘disguised remuneration’ scheme must arrange a settlement,...

Work and Pensions Secretary Margaret Greenwood is up at 2.15 p.m. and will announce a full review of the Universal Credit welfare scheme, the Mirror’s Dan Bloom reports. Greenwood tells him nothing is off the table — including axing the entire multi-...

The founder of the ABC was in the new Lidl store, in Abbots Road, Colchester, this morning: 24/09/2018  A new store not more than a ten minuet walk from our base. The person serving on the till was doing it with one hand. He was an Asi...

Labour conference for a moment longer, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has outlined plans to force large firms to give up 10 per cent of their shares to worker ownership funds.  Businesses with over 250 employees would have to tranfer one per c...