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The current lack of preparedness about the forthcoming changes to the Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) rules is a “horror” that shows both the meanness and lack of foresight of the government, commented Stephen Lloyd MP, Liberal Democr...

Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy TD said renters are being priced out of Dublin into commuter counties – but without proper infrastructure supports being put in place. Deputy Murphy was commenting on today’s figures from the Re...

Since 2011, the Department for Work & Pensions has underpaid an estimated 70,000 people who transferred to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) from other benefits, according to a National Audit Office investigation today. The Department estima...

A fall in peterol prices has caused inflation to ease.  The 12-month growth rate of the Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs (CPIH) fell to 2.5% in February 2018, with a broad range of categories seeing a reductio...

Social Democrats co-leader Róisín Shortall TD, responding to a Social Justice Ireland report that shows more than 104,000 working people at risk of poverty, today said: “The findings of the Poverty Focus 2018 report are very distu...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) works in partnership with award-winning charity Smart Works, a free interview preparation service for all unemployed women. To be eligible women must have an arranged job interview. Their work coach can then...

One million employers across the UK have now enrolled their staff into a workplace pension, helping more than 9 million employees save towards a more financially secure retirement. New figures, released by The Pensions Regulator, show that over 600,0...

DWP has launched a new Understanding Universal Credit website to help people find out what Universal Credit means for them. It was created in response to requests from claimants and partner organisations for more information about Universal Credit. &...

The ongoing problems with the roll out of Universal Credit and the devolution of welfare powers to Scotland will be raised by the Scottish Parliament’s Social Security Committee when it hears from Rt Hon Esther McVey, the Secretary of...

Companies in the UK paid out an estimated £3.8 billion to staff that were made redundant during 2016-2017.   Research from law firm Hugh James, using statistics from HMRC, suggests 255,000 employees were made redundant during that per...