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The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations wants to delay the rollout of Universal Credit, while the Government deals with abolishing the bedroom tax. They say while the bedroom tax remains, there’s a greater chance of tenants not receivin...

A family of 14 are living in one four-bedroom house after claiming the benefit cap made it impossible to pay the rent. Patricia Newman and her six children have had to move into her mother's home - already occupied by eight other members of her famil...

An elderly West Norfolk woman is being denied care support because benefit rules do not properly support her needs, campaigners say. A county court judge has upheld a decision by the Department for Work and Pensions not to pay attendance allowance to...

On Friday we had news the ABC was awarded a BIG Lottery ‘Awards for All’ grant, for our Work TV project (£10,000) and in the afternoon, we were approved for a further matching grant of (£4,000) from LoCASE (a low carbon initia...

Technology—in particular automation and artificial intelligence—is disrupting the way Americans work. But with targeted initiatives and investments in education, retraining, mobility, and support systems, the United States can help its ci...

EU Member States are facing employment shortages in a number of key sectors: Europe could need up to 756,000 skilled ICT workers and around a million healthcare professionals by 2020. A revised EU Blue Card aims to attract the world's best and bright...

The SNP has said that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) rhetoric to make work pay “reeks of hypocrisy,” after figures revealed that the department has taken on over 27,000 people for unpaid work placements since 2011 – with...

Following the announcement that the 2 Sisters Group will close its chicken production plant in Cambuslang in August 2018, local MSP Clare Haughey has said her “overriding priority now as the constituency MSP is to ensure those wh...

The DWP Select Committee is today launching a new inquiry into benefit sanctions: how they operate, recent developments, and what the evidence is that they work - either to deter non-compliant behaviour or to help achieve the policy objectives of get...

Social Welfare Training have sent us a copy of our their final version of the 2018/ 2019 Benefit Rates Poster. Main changes- * The Carer’s Allowance earnings rule is increased from £116 to £120 a week. * Housing Benefit non-dep...