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Entitled to have published this useful list of benefit changes   The following benefit changes are set to take place in 2016, some may be subject to change or approval. Benefit and Tax Credit rates frozen The main rates of working age benefits a...

Following the publication of the House of Common’s Work and Pensions Committee report on Communication of the State Pension Age Changes, Mhairi Black MP, who played a key role in securing the recommendation that the UK government should introdu...

OSBORNE’S ALPHABET — A IS FOR AUSTERITY, B IS FOR BEARISH: George Osborne and his spin doctors clearly don’t like surprises. The U.K. chancellor of the exchequer has been busy preparing the markets, commentators and the British...

Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Resolution Foundation has published a briefing note considering the likelihood, and implications, of a downward revision to the OBR’s forecast. It looks at what all this means for the Chancellor&...

DWP Select Committee Monday 14 March 2016 Meeting starts at 2.30pm Q1. What assessment he has made of the effect of his Department's welfare reforms on low and middle-income households since 2010. (904050)  Peter Grant MP (Glenrothes, Scot...

The US economy has been doing quite well ad todays labor market figues should show if the trent is continuing. In United States, the employment rate measures the number of people who have a job as a percentage of the working age population.

François Hollande faced a wave of youth outrage Wednesday over controversial plans to overhaul France’s labor system, as tens of thousands of students took to the streets to call for a bill’s withdrawal. High school students d...

What exactly happens when someone applies for asylum in the EU? Find out the definition of an asylum seeker, what their rights and obligations are, and what the process is like.  According to the UN Refugee Agency the terms asylum-seeker and ref...

Live replay of the EP Plenary session - Debate with Stefan LÖFVEN, Swedish Prime Minister on the current situation in the European Union.  Kjell Stefan Löfven born 21 July 1957) is a Swedish politician who has been...

The government’s attempt to let shops trade for longer than six hours each Sunday was voted down after 26 Tory backbenchers teamed up with Labour and the SNP. Commenting on the government defeat on Sunday Trading, SNP Deputy Leader an...