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The Tax Credits two-child limit Coming into force 6 April 2017 and aimed to save £1.2billion a year by 2020. Number of people affected: 515,000 families by 2020 What is it? Child Tax Credit is worth up to £2,780 per ch...

Claimants have had their benefits stopped by Job Centres in Ceredigion more than 13,000 times, research by the Cambrian News has found. Since April 2000, Aberystwyth and Cardigan Job Centres have sanctioned 7,026 individual job seekers claiming Job S...

Well reported in the press already.  The Green Party has announced plans to investigate the possibility of a three day weekend. In their speech to Spring Conference this weekend (Friday 31 March) Jonathan Bartley and Caroline Lucas promised to l...

Acas are the employment relations experts and a trusted source of advice for employers, employees, Government and others. The Government has introduced several new changes in employment law in 2017. Brief details of these changes are listed below.&nb...

The Personal Support Package – Community Partners Community Partners will be introduced to jobcentres in a phased approach from April to August 2017. -They will provide expert knowledge of disability to enhance the support we provide to cl...

Under the FCA’s definition, credit card customers are in persistent debt if they have paid more in interest and charges than they have repaid of their borrowing, over an eighteen month period. Customers in persistent debt are profitable for cre...

The arrival of April heralds a new financial year, but one that doesn’t bring with it the usual inflation-linked increases in tax thresholds and benefit rates. The former are set to rise faster than inflation – providing a tax cut for tho...

 Gordon Marsden MP, Labour’s Shadow Skills Minister, commenting on a report from a sub-committee of the Education and Business Select Committee, claiming that the Government’s apprenticeship levy lacks focus and targets the wrong ind...

Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser AC CH talks about the Surveillance State to the Australian Fabian Society.  Australian politics have swung to the right. The Australian Fabians are battling a range of issues with youth unemployment one of them. It is often...

A damning independent review of the disability benefit Personal Independence Payment (PIP) has been published today by Paul Gray.   The Liberal Democrats have blasted the government for ‘betraying the most vulnerable’. Liberal D...