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‘Fuller Working Lives: a partnership approach’ explains how as the population ages, employers need to draw on the skills and experience of older workers to avoid loss of labour. It also explains how working longer can improve the health a...

The Independent’s Ben Chu reports: “Public services, including health, are set to experience a severe and prolonged squeeze in the coming years, despite the chancellor’s loosening of the government’s fiscal rules, and that aus...

Work and Pensions Committee: Lord Freud, the architect of the Universal Credit, a major welfare reform, will appear before the Committee tomorrow, Wednesday 8 February, at 0930 in Wilson Room, Portcullis House. Channel 4 News is expected to run a sto...

The Work and Pensions Committee has published HMRC’s response to its report on Concentrix. The Committee was highly critical of both HMRC and its contractor for failings that left thousands of people, many of whom were vulnerable, without benef...

A Colchester Job Fair is being held Wednesday 15th February. Check it out.

The FT’s Helen Warrell and Thomas Hale report: “The U.K. has fired the starting gun on its largest ever sale of student loans to private investors, in an effort to divest public assets and cut the national debt. The deals, announced on Mo...

HMRC scrapped its deal with Concentrix the Company, which was employed to cut fraud and error from the tax credit system, after it was the subject of a series of criticisms, including from the Work and Pensions Committee. Of the 59,000 times Concentr...

House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee On Monday the Committee hears the first evidence in its inquiry into self-employment and the gig economy: from the perspective of current and former Uber, Hermes and Deliveroo couriers and drivers, wh...

A mum said she has received an apology from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), after her severely disabled daughter had her benefits stopped. Georgina Ball, 26, has Aicardi syndrome and has the mental age of a three-year-old. However, d...

Children’s Commissioner and Church of Scotland join children’s charities, unions and anti-poverty groups in call for £5 child benefit ‘top up’ to help end child poverty Leading voices from Scottish civil society came tog...