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Professor Bogdanor's most famous former student is David Cameron, who became Conservative Party leader and served as Prime Minister from 2010 to 2016. Bogdanor described Cameron as "one of the ablest" students he has taught,...

Industrial thread manufacturing organisation Coats Group has agreed a £74 million settlement for one of its defined benefit (DB) pension schemes, which will bring an anti-avoidance case brought by The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to an end. The set...

Workers have started to feel the squeeze in their finances, after wage growth recently fell below inflation for the first time since 2014. Benefit claimants have had their incomes frozen and they are now really feeling the squeeze. In April 2017, inf...

The UK government has suffered a humiliating High Court defeat over their welfare policy – with the government guilty of causing “real misery” for “no good purpose”. The High Court ruling found that applying the benefit...

The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) is pleased to launch their new website and new look! The GFN goal is to provide our visitors an easier way to learn about the mission, programming, and impact that GFN and its food banks partners are making on hun...

The State Opening of Parliament marks the formal start of the parliamentary year and the Queen's Speech sets out the government’s agenda for the coming session, outlining proposed policies and legislation. It is the only regular occasion when...

The Social Security (Emergency Funds) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 has been laid in parliament by new Work and Pensions Secretary Greg Clark and comes into force on Monday 19 June. The rule change means victims of the Manchester Arena bombing in May,...

A website for a charity for the homeless, www.whitechapelcentre.co.uk, seen on 5 February 2017, stated "NO SECOND NIGHT OUT ON THE STREETS. TELL US ABOUT A ROUGH SLEEPER" and featured a telephone number. Text below stated "Have you seen someone sleep...

A £1.9m lottery winner who conned taxpayers out of almost £80,000 in pension credit was today jailed for 16 months. Pensioner Patrick Ronan won the massive windfall on the National Lottery just weeks before applying for pension...

The DWP has suspended normal rules for claimant affected by the Grenfell Tower disaster. Rules which include sanctions routinely issued to claimants who miss appointments have been suspended indefinitely for former Grenfell Tower tenants and other lo...