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PARLIAMENT - Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has issued a further call for evidence on the impact of Covid-19 on tenants, landlords, rough sleepers and homelessness. In an interim report published in May, the Committee found...

ENERGY ASSISTANCE - More than 90,000 vulnerable pensioners in Scotland will receive a winter windfall of £140 off their fuel bills thanks to UK Government efforts working with energy firms to cut their costs. Eligible Pension Credit customers wh...

UNEMPLOYMENT - New analysis from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that the UK unemployment rate grew to 4.5% in the three months to August, compared with 4.1% in the previous quarter. While redundancies have risen to their h...

DISABILITY - We have had this wonderful article sent in by Sienna Fisher. It explains how Virtual Reality can assist disabled people use VR to improve their lives. Take it away Sienna...... I’m Sienna Fisher, a 25 years old girl from Chichester...

US BENEFITS UPLIFT - Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for approximately 70 million Americans will increase 1.3 percent in 2021, the Social Security Administration announced today. The 1.3 percent cost-of-living adjustme...

BANK FINES - New research released today by Finbold reveals which banks globally faced the biggest fines imposed by the regulators on a Year-to-Date (YTD) basis, as well as the total combined bank fines by countries. You can view the research in...

NOSHTASTIC - Foodhub is offering 20%* off this Halloween, so people can enjoy a spook-tacular snack!  Halloween night is usually spent out and about trick-or-treating or at a fancy dress party with your friends and family. However, the 31st...

PERSONAL VIEWPOINT - I woke up at two in the morning and wrote a letter to a newspaper. I have been baffled by what is happening at the moment. Locally the COVID numbers are small and as we know lots of people have no ill effects. Shutting down the e...

CHRISTMAS BENEFIT PAYMENTS - The DWP have said: "If a payment date is on a bank holiday or weekend, customers will be paid on the last working day before the bank holiday or weekend." This year, things are different in that Monday December 28 is...

NEW REPORT - Iain Duncan Smith founded Centre For Social Justice has come up with a new report.  Today the Centre for Social Justice Think Tank has published a major new report called ‘Unfinished Business’ which outlines plans for a univers...