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Just as we called it at the ABC. The Times reckons No. 10 is “particularly worried” Damian Green may have to go, despite his furious denials of any misbehavior. The Mail is among several papers that say Green has offered to release t...

The Institute of Fiscal Studies says that Child Poverty is increasing.   Debates over living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK are often hampered by the fact that official data on household incomes are available only with a signif...

Child Poverty Action Group and Working Families have launched a new project, ‘Britain works’, looking at in-work poverty and how work can be improved for families living on a low income. The polling, on behalf of Britain Works, was conduc...

The are introducing the Work and Health Programme in England and Wales from autumn 2017. The Scottish Government will be introducing separate arrangements for people in Scotland. This new contracted employment provision will help disabled people, the...

Following the welcome announcement last week that Government is dropping Local Housing Allowance rates from the funding mechanism for supported housing, the Committees have now received the full response from Government to their joint report. The res...

About 30,000 disabled people in Scotland could lose entitlement to disability benefits as a result of UK government welfare reforms, according to a new report. Many have been driven to “thoughts of suicide” over the impact of the cuts, ca...

The universal credit roll-out was supposed to finish last month. A green paper published by the Department for Work and Pensions in November 2010 referred to “completing the transfer to universal credit by October 2017″. David G...

For this year's International Stress Awareness Day (1 Nov 2017), Tom Meyers and Danielle Sax International Stress Management Association (ISMA) members from Belgium have gathered interviews from inspiring experts around the world who want to Speak Up...

The Universal Credit Advances are anything but generous and they expect a fast payback.  When you first claim Universal Credit it usually takes about 6 weeks until you get your first payment. You can ask for an advance of your Universal Credit p...

How often do we hear the gender pay gap blamed on women’s failure to negotiate their salaries, or women taking the ‘mummy track’ and never recovering ground? Jamila Rizvi has written a new book, Not So Lucky, which offers a mod...