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The new State Pension will be introduced in April 2016. Concerns have been raised that many of those who will be affected by the changes do not know enough about the changes or exactly what they will mean for their pensions, especially people who are...

The UK is to be investigated formally by the United Nations because of allegations of “systematic and grave” violations of disabled people’s human Officials from the United Nation’s Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) are to...

Committee renews call for Tax Credit numbers The Commons Work and Pensions Committee has today written to the Treasury to ask again for information on the numbers of people flowing on and off tax credits, and the average duration of a tax credit clai...

EVIDENCE SESSION: Benefit delivery  9.30am, Wednesday 4 November, Wilson Room, Portcullis House   The Work and Pensions Committee is holding an inquiry into the timeliness and accuracy of benefit delivery by the DWP. Potential problems that...

One for the diary next year is: The London Job Show Friday & Saturday 26-27 February 2016 10.00am – 6.00pm The London Job Show showcases some of the very best employment and training opportunities from the region’s most respected Intern...

The local Living Wage Campaign has come up with these statistics from the ONS There are 19,000 jobs in Colchester (22.7%) currently not paying the Living Wage, with workers in the cleaning, catering, hospitality and care...

This letter to David Cameron is very interesting. A lot of attention was focused on the Oakley Review and a great deal of work was done on the effect of sanctions. Yet there has been little change. A yellow card and just delaying...

EVIDENCE SESSION: Benefit delivery  9.30am, Wednesday 4 November, Wilson Room, Portcullis House  The Work and Pensions Committee is holding an inquiry into the timeliness and accuracy of benefit delivery by the DWP. Potential problems that...

Another Claiment forced to go hungry A housebound man with crippling arthritis says he is forced to go cold and hungry often only affording to eat once a day after he was refused sickness benefits. Kiel Faux, of Main Road, Harwich, is forced to visit...

The DWP is institutionalising food banks – let’s make them unnecessary instead By Niall Cooper - Church Action on Poverty Today’s announcement from Iain Duncan Smith that the Department for Work and Pensions are trialing placing job advisers in...