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The ABC has asked the Competition and Markets Authority to assess – is it fair that one company should have all the business from the DWP supplying clothing and footwear to claimants for interviews and starting jobs. Is there a proper tendering...

David Cameron is said to be close to securing a deal for the UK to freeze in-work benefits to people from other parts of the EU The UK has been pursuing a deal that would allow it to deny in-work benefits to people from other parts of the EU for up t...

In November 2015 Facebook was told by a Brussels court to stop tracking its users once they leave the Facebook site by using cookies. But the ruling contains some English words — cookie, homepage and browser among others. That, Facebo...

Committee questions DWP minister Baroness Altmann on bereavement expenses and help available In December last year the Committee launched an inquiry into the help that is available to people on lower incomes to cope with funeral expenses and the loss...

ECONOMY — What EU claims to believe: In the past few days European Commissioners have seemed unsure which line to take on the state of the European economy. Journalist Florian Ede asked three members what they thought and reported: &l...

The Minister of Entertainment (we wish) at the Conservative Party, Boris Johnson, has been writing today about how we should not blame Google for their tax avoidance. ‘It’s the ‘UK’s’ fault that this is happening’...

Ahead of a key vote on the Welfare Reform and Work Bill this week in the House of Lords, over 30 national charities, members of the Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC), have signed an open letter (below) to Iain Duncan Smith warning that the Governm...

House of Lords - Welfare Reform and Work Bill Monday 25 January 2016 Meeting starts at 2.30pm Oral questions: Additional expenditure on housing benefit paid to private landlords as a result of the reduction of social housing units Oral ques...

Once again the DWP are in hot water regarding statistics.  The UK Statistics Authority revealed an official confession today of misdeeds from the Department for Work and Pensions. The DWP allowed an unauthorised person to see new stati...

The ABC was invited to the Romanian Embassy on Friday 22 January for a meeting to explain more about our organisation, and how we plan to assist European Workers - those on benefits, those retired or retiring. To help workers and business people lear...