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The DWP’s Universal Credit helpline will be shut for most of Christmas. This has caused outrage with many people and organisations, with many claimants facing hardship, starvation and eviction.  The fact that the benefit freeze will c...

We came across this wonderful project in Croatia being organized and supported by the Proplan Foundation and decided to give them the floor to explain their project.  This is what the Udruga Proplan Foundation do: Mission statements and goa...

The cost of the cheapest Christmas dinner will be nearly 20 percent higher this year due to Brexit-fueled inflation, points out a survey in Good Housekeeping magazine. Lidl and Aldi are the only two supermarkets where the whole basket costs less than...

Work & Pensions Committee Immediate:  Tuesday 28 November 2017 Committee Member presents Bill to catch ‘deadbeat’ parents ducking child maintenance  In May of this year the Committee published a short report into child maint...

Britain is in a “spiral of ever-growing division” with a stark postcode lottery in social mobility, according to a damning report by the Social Mobility Commission today. The report uncovers a striking geographical divide with London...

Inflation is the rate at which the cost of goods and services rises year-on-year. In order to be able to buy the same amount of goods, your salary must increase by at least the same level as inflation. Where the inflation rate outstrips wage increase...

The pay gap between men and women working in London has barely changed in over two decades, new ONS analysis shows. While in 1997 the capital had the narrowest gender pay gap, there has been little improvement since then. Other regions in the UK have...

The Christmas Bonus will be paid to over 1.2 million social welfare recipients this week (commencing Monday 27th November), with payments totalling €219 million being made to pensioners, people with disabilities, carers, lone parents, long-term...

Watch this New Zealand cop recruitment video that’s gone viral. In a bid to attract new and diverse officers, New Zealand Police have released an entertaining recruitment video on Facebook. And it seems to be working. Will we see the police at...

Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury tells it how it is:  'There’s low unemployment, there’s good news, but the thing we see … now the majority of people that come to the food banks are in work. That is a sign that work is n...