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More and more people are facing benefit sanctions say Unite the Union. Half a million people have had their benefits suddenly stopped by sanctions in the last 12 months. That’s half a million people, many of whom have been plunged into pov...

Cheques paid into your account will soon be able to be cleared the same day. Currently cheques can take as much as six days to clear. These changes will be phased in from October this year. This development has come from the Cheque and Credit Clearin...

Sixteen of the best-off former BHS executives set to benefit most from Sir Philip’s out-of-court settlement A first look at the detail of Sir Philip Green’s out-of-court settlement with TPR on the BHS pension fund deficit by the Work and...

Nearly 7 million people of working age in the UK are disabled or have a health condition. Historically there has been a significant gap between the proportion of disabled people employed compared with non-disabled people. Encouraging applications fro...

This is from the Resolution Foundation report you can download below.  From its announcement at the Summer Budget in July 2015, it was clear that the National Living Wage (NLW) would be a transformative policy, significantly raising the legal wa...

Work and Pensions Committee Wednesday 22 March 2017 Meeting starts at 9.45am Subject: Self-employment and the gig economy The disparities between self-employed people and employed people in terms of access to benefits and the steps that should b...

Median pay for the chief executives of 104 of the biggest American companies rose 6.8 percent for fiscal 2016 to $11.5 million, on track to set a post-recession record, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. “Twice as many companies...

Pensions are undergoing some radical changes. Many more workers are accessing pension schemes through auto-enrolment, even if the adequacy of many of these schemes is poor. Good quality Defined Benefit (DB) – where you know what you put in and...

Responding to official figures showing the number of people living in poverty in the UK now stands at 14 million, Campbell Robb, chief executive at the independent Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), said:  “These troubling figures are warni...

The UK government is proposing to close up to 23 Jobcentre Plus sites across Scotland - and 50% of sites in Glasgow. The Scottish Government and SNP at Westminster have been active in their efforts to force the UK government into reversing these plan...