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A financial ‘health centre’ is being opened today to help families struggling to make ends meet as the government completes its roll-out of Universal Credit to postcodes around Bethnal Green and part of Shoreditch. The new centre is being officially...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has published more details on the future of DWP jobcentres. Damian Hinds, Minister for Employment (July 2016 to January 2018), said: We will always make sure that people have the support they need...

Colchester Jobcentre Plus is opening at the weekends to keep up with demand says staff - many of whom have been training on Universal Credit. The UK government has been eroding workers entitlements with companies signing in staff to 48 hr contracts w...

We were contacted by Allen who has set up this 'chores' website. Anyone willing to write an eBook about stick vacumn cleaners needs a new set of friends was out first opinion.  Still if doing the dusting gets you all hot and excited, this i...

The labour market statistics were published today by the Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency. Unemployment increased over the quarter and decreased over the year The latest NI seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the period May-Jul...

11 September 2018:  The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, along with the EURES Cross-Border Partnership, will host a cross-border Job Fair in the Slieve Russell Hotel, Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan on Thursday, 20 September, from...

Universal Credit full service has been rolling out across Scotland since March 2016 and is due to be completed by December this year. Speaking ahead of her address to the National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers in Glasgow today, Shi...

The 1996 welfare reform in the US was a major policy shift that sought to reduce dependence of single parents on government benefits by promoting work, encouraging marriage, and reducing non-marital childbearing. This column describes how t...

Chancellor Philip Hammond has announced that earlier plans to give self-employed workers a tax cut will not go ahead. The relief for self-employed people had first been announced under George Osborne back in 2015 and would have abolished Class 2 Nati...

SDLP Social Justice Spokesperson Nichola Mallon MLA has said it is unacceptable that over two months on from the publication of the Independent Review of the PIP Assessment Process Report by Walter Radar, the Department for Communities has still not...