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The Scottish National Party has today called for a freephone number to be established immediately following reports that individuals applying for Universal Credit will be charged up to 45p a minute to make a claim.    Neil Gray MP has writt...

Cameron’s opening bid — a 13 year benefit ban: Having spent all week telling other leaders they can’t change the text, that’s the first thing David Cameron tried to do in the UK summit discussion, but suggesting that...

Number of families in private rented sector has increased by almost a million in last decade The long-established decline in homeownership rates in England appeared to pause last year. However, rates again fell among families with children, continuin...

Debate on the Preparation of the European Council Meeting of 18 and 19 February 2016, and particularly on the UK referendum, during the EP plenary session in Strasbourg. Statements by Bert KOENDERS, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Nether...

ASDA has removed charity and food bank collection points from all of its stores. Food banks throughout the UK rely on these donations and this decision could leave Britain's poorest families going hungry. 38 Degrees Member Clare, who shops at ASDA is...

For October to December 2015, 74.1% of people aged from 16 to 64 were in work, up 0.4 percentage points from July to September 2015 and up 0.9 from a year earlier. The unemployment rate for October to December 2015 was 5.1%, down from 5.7% for a year...

Welcome jobs boost but pay growth looks set to remain subdued. Employment growth continues to impress but a slowdown in productivity suggests that pay growth is set to remain subdued, the Resolution Foundation said today (Wednesday) in response to th...

SOKÓŁKA, Poland — In his campaign to negotiate a new deal for the U.K. in the European Union, David Cameron is taking aim at Tomasz Bancerek’s customers. That’s because the U.K. prime minister’s goal of limiting be...

SNP MP Ronnie Cowan has called on the UK Government to urgently clarify whether it supports private contractor Concentrix’s practice of indiscriminately sending phishing letters to low-income families in a bid to uncover fraudulent tax credit c...

Planned changes to housing benefit could leave vast numbers of the country’s most vulnerable people unable to afford rent on their homes, forcing the closure of many schemes like women’s refuges, specialist dementia accommodation and vet...