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In spite of higher employment numbers, the German middle class is shrinking rapidly. It sank from 56 to 48 percent of the population between 1992 and 2013. This information comes from a study by the Institute for Work and Qualification (IAQ) at Duisb...

Scottish police are assessing whether to launch a criminal investigation into the failure of two government ministers to address a coroner’s concerns about the safety of the “fitness for work” test, a failure which may have caused...

The ABC are partners of the Electorial Commission The Electoral Commission has today (28 April) announced that as part of the investigation launched on 18 February 2016 into Conservative Party campaign spending returns, it has requested tha...

Good news for the Disabled - Public sector bodies' websites and mobile applications will have to be made accessible to everyone, under a provisional deal struck by Parliament and Council negotiators on Tuesday night. Over 167 million EU citizens...

Economy — jobless rate to keep falling: That’s the official EU prediction in its spring economic forecasts. The Commission has been wrong before (the most recent economic growth forecasts from February have already been adjusted), bu...

Migration figures have been overstated says a recent report EU citizens with jobs have similar access to the benefits as UK citizens. For jobseekers or people not working, the rules for determining eligibility can be complex and vary depending on the...

Frank Field MP, Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, has written to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the Insolvency Service with regards to the inquiry into BHS and the Pension Protection Fund. Huge sums dissapeared out of BHS and the pensions...

Reproduced by kind permission of the Daily Mirror is research as to the to 20 landlords in each area recieciving Housing Benefit from Councils   INDIVIDUAL / COMPANY TOTAL HOUSING BENEFIT 1-2-Let £290,254.00 1066 Country Estates £177...

DWP Select Committee Wednesday 4 May 2016 Meeting starts at 9.30am Subject: The future of Jobcentre Plus Witnesses: Matthew Oakley, Senior Researcher, Social Market Foundation, Tony Wilson, Director of Policy and Research, Learning and Work Inst...

With all the recent publicity in regard to Princes death, this research may prove interesting.  Prof. Les Mayhew, professor of statistics at City University London’s Cass Business School and adviser to the Office for National Statistics, a...