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UNIVERSAL CREDIT PROTESTS - Protests are already starting over the cuts to Universal Credit.  Martin Mayer, secretary of Sheffield Trade Union Council, addressed the protest on the steps of the Department of Work & Pensions in Sheffield.&nbs...

UNIVERSAL CREDIT CUT - Action for children reacts to PM’s conference speech & cut to Universal Credit Director of policy and campaigns at Action for Children, Imran Hussain, said: “While today is a big day for the Prime Minister, it’s a grim day...

TORY CONFERENCE - Sir Iain Duncan Smith has launched a last-ditch bid to persuade the Government to keep a £20-a-week uplift in the value of Universal Credit. The former Tory leader piled the pressure on Boris Johnson to perform a U-turn as he said i...

UNIVERSAL CREDIT CUT - The outpouring of anger and frustration at the removal of the £20 a week uplift is simply unprecedented. Hundreds and hundreds of organisations on the newsfeeds that we subscribe to are calling for this £20 per week uplift to b...

ECONOMICS - History repeats itself says Neil Shearing, Group Chief Economist of Capital Economics. Fuel shortages, tax increases and a whiff of stagflation have prompted comparisons between the economic situation today and that of ...

HOW TO KEEP YOUR BANK DETAILS SAFE - Banking trade body UK Finance has described the level of fraud in the UK as a ‘national security threat’, with criminals stealing up to £4m a day from Brits in the first half of the year. As a result, a new ‘...

US EVICTION MORATORIUM ENDS - Starting Friday, the first day of October, Californians will no longer be guaranteed up to two extra weeks of paid sick leave for Covid-19 illnesses, and, for the first time in more than a year, landlords will be ab...

BROADBAND - A new scheme to help jobseekers has been launched.  Jobseekers claiming Universal Credit are now able to claim six months' free fibre-optic broadband from TalkTalk, thanks to a new government scheme that launched today. Jobcentre wor...

UNIVERSAL CREDIT CUT - “I have every sympathy for people who are finding it tough," Boris Johnson said, but any uplift has "got to come out of some people’s pockets.” Ignoring of course that people have paid into the system for years (Editor Not...

DISABILITY BENEFITS - The BBC have reported that 287,000 people won a tribunal appeal in the last three years with most appeals centred on PIP (Personal Independence Payments). That represents a sucess rate of seven out of ten people who appealed. Tr...