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DWP - Jobseekers will be offered coaching and advice on moving into "growing sectors" as part of a £238m employment programme, the government has said. Job Entry Targeted Support is aimed at helping those out of work because of Covid-19 for three mon...

TRAINING - The Assured Skills Academy, focussing on Future Business Skills, will see participants receive industry-relevant pre-employment training at Belfast Met. Participants who complete the training are guaranteed a job interview for a role...

FURLOUGH ENDS - Today is the deadline for SMEs to issue redundancy notices if they are planning to lay off between 20 and 99 people when furlough ends on October 31. At PMQs yesterday the PM said “we will do everything we can to save every job”...

SOCIAL SECURITY FRAUD - The Social Security Administration and its Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced four new Cooperative Disability Investigations (CDI) Units opened across the country. CDI Units identify, investigate, and prevent...

DWP POSTAL SITES - We get asked a lot about where to send mail to.  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is modernising how it receives and processes post by gradually changing from a paper-led system to a digital solution. This has result...

PENSION CREDIT - Communities Minister Carál Ní Chuilín is encouraging people to make sure they don’t miss out on claiming Pension Credit they may be entitled to. Pension Credit is an income-related benefit and means that people need not live on less...

TRAINING - Facing mass unemployment with large job losses being announced daily, the government is announcing large scale funding to help people retrain. The Prime Minister will today set out plans to transform the training and skills system, making...

STATE PENSIONS - The age you can get your state pension in the UK is set to rise from October 6th, you will need to be 66 to claim your pension. That means anyone born after 5 October 1954 will have a state pension age of at least 66 - for some...

TAXES - Donald Trump paid just $750 (£580) in federal income tax both in 2016, the year he ran for the US presidency, and in his first year in the White House, the New York Times says. The newspaper - which says it obtained tax records for Mr Tr...

FOOD WASTE - On 19 December, 2019, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) designated 29 September as the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW), recognizing that the observance of an IDAFLW would contri...