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Human rights campaigners say ‘no coherent case’ for repeal of human rights act The Faculty of Advocates and the Law Society of Scotland have joined the growing criticism of the UK Government’s plans to repeal the Human Rights Act. B...

SNP MP Challenges Pm On Benefit Sanction "Aspirations" SNP MP Anne McLaughlin has today challenged the Prime Minister over DWP staff being given "aspirations" for the number of benefits sanctions they impose. Various allegations of DWP staff being pr...

Live on the ABC website House of Commons- Work and Pensions Select Committee EVIDENCE SESSION: In-work progression in Universal Credit   9.30am, Wednesday 3 February, Grimond Room, Portcullis House This is the first of three planned ev...

I am very pleased to announce that the ABC is now on the list for receiving the latest news from the Scottish National Party (SNP). Special thanks to Susan Ruddick on the corporate side for getting us on inside track. We hope to b...

Over half of workless households contain a disabled adult Worklessness across the UK is shrinking and shifting in profile, with big improvements in single parent employment, but over half of workless households (54 per cent) now contain one or more d...

According to the Scottish Herald - The Tory government been attacked over plans to extend controversial benefit sanctions to claimants with jobs, with critics warning introducing the "shockingly harsh" penalties risks plunging workers into poverty. A...

In August 2015, the Finnish government announced that they are investigating such an idea, in their proposed trial of a basic income. The Swiss government may also be obliged to have a referendum on the idea due to campaigners managing to gather over...

Ministers had proposed reducing the Employment Support Allowance payments to those judged unfit to work but well enough to attend interviews aimed at getting them back into the jobs market by £30 a week. Labour, Lib Dem and independent peers de...

The DWP Committee will be discussing the progress of Universal Credit on Wednesday 3 February 2016 Meeting starts at 9.30am. You can watch it live here Witnesses: Tony Wilson, Director of Policy and Research, Learning and Work Institute, David F...

Live on the ABC website House of Commons- Work and Pensions Select Committee EVIDENCE SESSION: In-work progression in Universal Credit   9.30am, Wednesday 3 February, Grimond Room, Portcullis House This is the first of three planned ev...