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Scottish Unemployed Workers Network activist Tony Cox was arrested on 29th January after Arbroath Jobcentre management called police to stop him representing a vulnerable jobseeker.   What Happened at Arbroath Job Centre On 29 January Tony was...

The National Audit Office are doing a survey on benefit sanctions. You may wish to participate.  Benefit sanctions Scheduled Autumn 2016 Sector Welfare and benefits NAO Team Director: Max Tse Audit Manager: Colin Ross Media contact Rupi Gohlar&n...

Provide by disability campaigning group Black Triangle this latest update on DWP related deaths makes for grim reading.  Chae Bennett  aged 21, committed suicide on April 15 this year in woodland near his family home takes his own life, bec...

House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee Committee Re-Opens Auto-Enrolment Inquiry For New Evidence On Lifetime ISAs In the 2016 Budget, the Chancellor announced the introduction of a Lifetime ISA, which will be available to any adult unde...

Young people in Scotland will be given additional support to start their working lives by an SNP Government – as Nicola Sturgeon sets out ambitious plans to use the new powers coming to the Scottish Parliament to keep Scotland moving forward.&...

Workers in Torridge, Rossendale, Woking and Castle Point most likely to benefit Up to a third of workers in some areas of Britain are set for a pay rise as a result of the introduction of the National Living Wage (NLW), the new legal wage floor of &p...

Labour mobility in the euro area: cure or curse? The unemployment dispersion between EU member states has peaked in 2013. Labour mobility did play a role in reducing these macroeconomic imbalances but was insufficient. Policy options towards higher m...

We have reproduced this excellent article from AlJazeera. It is really worth a read.  Britain's benefit sanctions: 'You're not even human' 'Big Dave' lives in a tower that provides social housing for hundreds of people. He was previously homeles...

LEADING Scottish historian Sir Tom Devine has urged new Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb to scrap the UK Government’s “outrageous” and “immoral” policies on welfare. Devine is among a number of high-profile Chri...

Scottish disability campaigners are seeking a criminal investigation into former Work and Pensions Secretary Duncan Smith. John McArdle, of Black Triangle, said the group had made a complaint to Police Scotland over a failure of Duncan Smith and form...