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The  International Stress Management Association (ISMA) is running the National Stress Awareness Day today. Many people on benefits live under acute stress at times. We have published a downloadable guide for battling stress as an atta...

House of Lords Wednesday 2 November, after 3am. Will be debated:  Concerns from Women Against State Pension Inequality about the reduction of the state pension age for women - Baroness Bakewell

The voluntary wage has been increased by 20p to £8.45 an hour. In London, it has gone up by 35p to £9.75. The changes announced by the Living Wage Foundation affect 3,000 Living Wage accredited employers. The rate, calculated independentl...

Work and Pensions Committee Wednesday 2 November 2016 Meeting starts at 9.30am Subject: Pension Protection Fund and the Pensions Regulator Witnesses: Malcolm Booth, Chief Executive Officer, National Federation of Occupational Pensioners, Neil Ca...

HMRC estimate that its specialist unit dedicated to collecting tax from high net worth individuals raised £416m from its compliance work with this group in 2015-16 according to a report today by the National Audit Office (NAO). This is separate...

Department for Work and Pensions’ long-awaited Green Paper consultation on supporting more sick and disabled people in to work is being reviewd shortly. Among the measures being reviewed as part of the consultation is the controversial Wor...

Don’t think Britain’s pensioners are there to be walked over. Hundreds of pensioners from across the UK will gather in Westminster on November 2nd to lobby their MPs over the state pension “triple lock”, the funding crisis in...

Sandra White, the Convener of the Scottish Parliament’s Social Security Committee, will today  lead a Holyrood debate on the UK Government’s dehumanising and ineffective sanctions system. The parliament will be debating academic rese...

With 11 days to go before the U.S. presidential election, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump by 15 percentage points among early voters surveyed in the past two weeks, according to the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation...

The Australia Fabians are a volunteer organisation committed to the cause of equality. This is an excellent video about inequality and fully relevant to those in the rest of the world. ‘Labour Theft’ is a very interesting concept and...