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There was a fall in employment and a rise in unemployment, when comparing March to May 2015 with the 3 months to February 2015. Comparing March to May 2015 with the 3 months to February 2015, the number of people in employment fell by 67,000 (to reac...

Wanted: Drug Users for Drug Tests: U.S. pharmaceutical companies are recruiting thousands of recreational drug users to clinical trials as the industry races to develop a new generation of “abuse-deterrent” opioid painkillers. Officials have estimate...

Two of the U.K.’s biggest energy companies are axing some 12,500 jobs as low oil prices continue to wreak havoc across the industry. Some 6,500 of those will be worldwide staff and contractor positions at Shell, the other 6,000 in Centrica’s U.K. ope...

We recently called in to our local library to use the internet. We found that as we opened our browser our laptop froze, the mouse stopped working, the screen froze, and that was the end of our session. Having rebooted again and again with the same r...

Publish the statistics showing how many people have died after their benefits were stopped 243,431 supporters have signed the Change.org petition and there is room for more.  This is the link https://www.change.org/p/hm-courts-and-tribunal-serv...

Recently we have been busy attempting to get an overdraft to cover a grant we have received for camera kit and other items: (£1,500). We have to pay out the money and then evidence ‘the-spend’.  Not just get an invoice, but to show the grant mak...

We received this email this morning and on this occasion I have decided to reproduce the actual email itself. The Office of Marie Rimmer MP are seeing that ABC members and website visitors are kept up to date with this important information about thi...

New Inquiry into Benefit Delivery The Work and Pensions Committee is launching a new inquiry into the timeliness and accuracy of benefit delivery by the DWP. Potential problems that can arise when benefits are delayed or underpaidinclude people...

Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman is facing a revolt Scores of Labour MPs are expected to defy an instruction to abstain on the government welfare bill, which includes plans to limit child tax credit to two children. Three of the four leadership co...

Starting this fall, the Dutch city of Utrecht will begin an ambitious yearlong experiment: giving monthly checks to numerous people already on welfare, no strings attached. The concept is known as a basic income. It affords citizens a standard amount...