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Holyrood’s Social Security Committee has issued an invitation to the new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Rt Hon David Gauke MP, to give evidence at a future committee meeting. In 2016, the Committee heard from the then Secretary of St...

The DWP have a stall at the TUC conference for the first time. The 149th annual TUC Congress 2017 will take place at The Brighton Centre. The Department of Work & Pensions have boldly set up shop in the exhibition hall to promote their...

Government has not evaluated the impact of its welfare reforms on homelessness, or the impact of the mitigations that it has put in place, according to the National Audit Office. There were 77,240 households in temporary accommodation in England in M...

The Turnbull Government has suspended the payments of 1300 young long-term unemployed for not taking part in the Coalition’s $750 million internship program. Employment Minister Michaelia Cash revealed 1300 young people had their benefits susp...

A former employment minister who was forced to sign on the dole after losing his Assembly seat has described his experience of heading to the benefits office for the first time. Danny Kennedy, who had been an Ulster Unionist MLA since 1998 and previo...

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits jumped to a more than two-year high last week amid a surge in applications in hurricane-ravaged Texas, but the underlying trend remained consistent with a strong labor market. The surge in clai...

It has been reported by the BBC that nearly a third of fit notes are for psychiatric problems. The data comes from NHS Digital, which has analysed fit notes from December 2014 to March 2017. The NHS, on its website page devoted to mental health issue...

End Hunger has been actively campaigning to make a difference on holiday hunger over the summer break, including a meeting at City Hall in London and activists sending over 150 postcards to MPs asking them to tackle holiday hunger. Next week there wi...

Universal basic income and the future of work was written for the TUC by the Fabian Society. It examines the arguments and evidence for and against Universal Basic Income (UBI) policies, concluding that there are as many potential problems as benefit...

The 2017 Macquarie Youth Index reveals that young people's happiness and wellbeing are at their lowest levels since the study was first commissioned in 2009. This report reveals that more than a quarter of young people do not feel in control of their...