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Labour Force Survey (LFS) employment rate decreased over the quarter while unemployment and economic inactivity rates remain unchanged. There was a decrease in the employment rate (68.7%) over the quarter and over the year.  The economic inactiv...

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has released this report on Lone Parents on Low incomes Single parents on low incomes are being hit hard by rising living costs and the benefit freeze. How do they cope with the impact of low pay and insecurity? Insecur...

HMRC raised £574.9 billion of tax revenues this year1, an increase of £38.1 billion (7.1%) on 2015-16 and paid out £39.1 billion in benefits and credits (approximately one-fifth of the government's total benefit expenditure). The ta...

A £30,000 a year grant to a community association which operates in the poorest area of Scunthorpe has been withdrawn by North Lincolnshire Council because the funding helps residents secure welfare benefits. Now the Crosby Association on Frodi...

Rent owed to Highland Council by the 1290 Highlanders currently receiving universal credit has jumped 40 per cent in just six months – from £704,000 in December to £988,687 in June. Of those recipients 1037, or 80 per cent, are now...

Landmark UK Ruling Gives Equal Pension Rights to Gay Couples The Supreme Court yesterday ruledin favour of a gay man’s case to secure his husband the same pension benefits a wife would receive. Retired chemical company worker John Walker,...

Commenting on the publication today (Thursday) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, which brings EU laws — including workers’ rights — into UK law , TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said: “This is a Downing Stre...

Nearly 4.2 million people (full-time equivalent - FTE) in the European Union (EU) were working in the environmental economy in 2014, almost 1.4 million more than fifteen years ago. 60% of these jobs concerned activities related to environmental prote...

Working families who are "just about managing" are worse off than they were last year, despite Theresa May's pledge to focus her efforts on helping this group, new research has found. A report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, an anti-poverty chari...

Jobs figures published today showing that unemployment is at a record low in Scotland and substantially lower than the UK average have been welcomed by the SNP. Over the quarter of March to May 2017, the unemployment rate dropped to 3.8%. Meanwhile t...