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Rail fares are expected to rise by 3.5% in January, affecting millions of commuters. Although the exact figure will be announced tomorrow when official inflation statistics for July are published, economists are predicting that the Retail Prices Inde...

Labour Market Statistics Published The labour market statistics were published today by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. Key points Labour Force Survey (LFS) unemployment increased over the quarter and decreased over the year The...

“The number of people in work has continued to edge ahead, though the employment rate was unchanged on the quarter. However, the number of vacancies is a new record high, while the unemployment rate is now at its lowest since the winter of 1974-75.”...

The government’s assessment processes for Employment & Support Allowance (ESA) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP) are denying hundreds of thousands of disabled and seriously unwell people the benefit they are entitled to – driving them into...

By 2066, one in four people in the UK will be aged 65 and over. How does this affect the economy, services and society?   In mid-2016 there were 1.6 million people aged 85 years and over (2% of the total population); by mid-2041 this is projecte...

Theresa May has unveiled a £100m government fund in an attempt to eradicate rough-sleeping in England within the next decade. It comes as James Brokenshire, the communities secretary, admitted that efforts to tackle homelessn...

Russia is open to plans for a referendum on whether to increase the state pension age after protests over the proposal continue, it has been suggested. Last week the Central Election Commission (CEC) said that it was in every Russian citizen’s i...

Government has announced its plans for the funding of supported housing. The plans reveal that supported housing, including refuges and all forms of short-term supported housing, will be funded by housing benefit and kept outside of the Universal Cre...

Today comes the news that rents could shoot up 15% by 2023 as the supply of new rental properties wanes. A survey by the Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors suggests tax changes that came in last year have rendered Buy-to-Let investments less p...

The number of unemployed people decreased by 284,000 to 6.3 million in July 2018, and the unemployment rate edged down to 3.9 percent. Since July 2017, the number of unemployed has decreased by 676,000, and the unemployment rate has declined by 0.4 p...