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MANDATORY ELECTRICAL TESTS - Landlords will have to make sure that electrical installations in their homes for new and existing tenancies are safety tested by a qualified person. From 1 April 2021 new regulations will require landlords to make s...

BUDGET DAY - The budget was not all bad.  The £20-per-week boost to universal credit will be extended until the end of September, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced in the Budget. The government will also give working tax credit claimants an equiv...

BUDGET DAY  - A shocking 715,326 private renters cannot cover the rent they owe with the amount of Universal Credit they receive. These are figures provided by Generation Rent. Wednesday's budget will be crucial for many and failure to...

NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION - If we’d stuck with the social security we had a decade ago, 1.5 million fewer people would be living in poverty...  Our social security system looks very different to how it did 10 years ago. While a few changes h...

JOB FAIRS - Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey has announced a series of virtual job fairs being piloted by the Department for Communities over the next few months. The innovative pilot programme has been introduced as an alternative to physical job...

AUSTRALIAN JOBKEEPER - The Australian government is about to throw more than 1.5 million workers into potential unemployment by terminating its JobKeeper COVID-19 wage subsidy scheme. Simultaneously, on March 31, it will end the “Coronavirus Suppleme...

UNIVERSAL CREDIT - The pressure on chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend the £20-a-week uplift in Universal Credit (UC) indefinitely in next week’s budget has been reinforced by a new survey from Unite, Britain and Ireland’s largest union. Unite said...

COVID CRISIS DEEPENS - Almost two million people have not worked for at least six months due to the economic impact of the pandemic, the BBC reported today from a report by the Resolution Foundation think tank.  Those people affected were e...

CAIRO –  A record 12.4 million Syrians - nearly 60 percent of the population - are now food insecure, according to alarming new national data from the UN World Food Programme (WFP).  In just over one year, an additional 4.5 million Syrians...

PENSIONS - News that changes to state pension regulations may be announced in the Spring Budget have caused some concern. The personal finance experts at money.co.uk have commented on how consumers can ensure they are prepared for any upcoming c...