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On the day that Universal Credit is rolled out Nationwide, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Owen Smith MP and Debbie Abrahams MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth visited Oldham Foodbank to hear from people already receiving the benefit about th...

Work and Pensions Committee Wednesday 13 April 2016 Meeting started at 9.32am, ended 11.58am UK savings are at an all-time rate at just 4% according to the OECD and set to fall. This compares with 14.5% in France and 9% in Germany. Consumer Debt...

SNP sheds light on uk government priorities. Scottish National Party Westminster Leader Angus Robertson MP has called out the UK government on their priorities as it is revealed over 3 000 members of staff in the Department for Work and Pensions were...

Earnings growth likely to have slowed in recent months Commenting on the latest ONS inflation figures, which show that CPI inflation increased to 0.5 per cent in March, Adam Corlett, Economic Analyst at the Resolution Foundation said: “While in...

As reported in today’s Sunday Post, an SNP Government will protect the Winter Fuel Payment and adapt payments to suit Scottish circumstances Nicola Sturgoen has said.   An SNP Government will also extend Winter Fuel Payments to the familie...

 The former is cleaning the floor with the latter, according to Deloitte’s U.K. Chief Economist Ian Stewart. “The financial crisis and the ensuing slowdown in growth has put significant pressure on wages. US wages have risen by 21 pe...

UK: Cameron and Corbyn release tax returns. They are the first U.K. political leaders to agree to do so. Cameron was first to file them online, showing around €250,000 income in each of the last two tax years, almost all of that coming his prime...

Ros Altmann believes changes to the state pension were “mis-sold” to the public and is working to minimise bad outcomes for a section of female retirees. Speaking BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, Altmann said that under the ne...

Use new powers to invest £5 a week in every child, say child poverty campaigners New Scottish Parliament faces massive increases in child poverty £5 top up to child benefit would reduce child poverty by 14% - lifting 30 000 children out o...

Turn2Us have provided some useful information in their newsletter.  The freeze on working age benefits announced in the Summer Budget 2015 means that from April 2016 there will be no increase in benefit rates for four years &...