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Around one in three universal credit claimants living in housing association properties are having their benefit for housing costs paid directly to their landlord, results from a secret survey have shown. The findings, seen by Inside Housing, s...

Private equity company Warburg Pincus has been chortling away this week.  Through its 2010 investment in discount store chain Poundland, Warburg Pincus helped transform Poundland into the largest single-price value retailer in Europe b...

From October 2015, PIP will be rolled out across Great Britain to claimants that have a long-term or indefinite award of Disability Living Allowane (DLA). The rollout will be carefully managed to ensure that the volume of invitations issued to claima...

Employer referral service is now live across Great Britain. Fit for Work is a free occupational health scheme designed to help manage sickness absence. Companies can receive a £500 tax exemption for each employee referred to the service on medical gr...

Specialist Employability Support (SES) is a new tailored support service for unemployed disabled people that will help them move closer to the labour market. This new service began last month and is being delivered by six national SES providers. Four...

The next few years could spell trouble for the Tories. Huge cuts have to be made in public spending. Then there’s the referendum on membership of the European Union, probably in 2017, which cause all kinds of dissent in the party. Meanwhile, the...

The Tories "cannot ignore the gulf in pay packets that yawns wider" every year, Boris Johnson has told the Conservative Party conference. He said the government must support the "hardest working and lowest paid" as "we reform welfare and we cut taxes...

Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, told the Tory Conference in his speech that under Labour disability benefits treated the disabled as “passive victims” and that his reforms were designed to change this. Duncan Smith kicked off...

Plaid Cymru has said the Chancellor’s trickery on tax credits is beginning to unravel as senior Conservative politicians begin to realise the damaging implications of the cuts, and has once again called on George Osborne to abandon the policy. Member...

The Sun are campaigning against the changes to Tax Credits. This issue could turn out to be Camerons Poll Tax.