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NRPF  BENEFITS EXCLUSION - Hundreds of thousands of people in the UK are affected by a Home Office policy denying them access to welfare. Most Black or from minority ethnic backgrounds; many have British-born children; and most are living below...

DWP - A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) whistleblower has warned that harsh new policies that are forcing more disabled people to attend weekly face-to-face jobcentre meetings could lead to benefit claimants taking their own lives. The wo...

DWP DEATHS - Shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth has said he would want to order an independent inquiry into deaths linked to the actions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) if his party wins the next general election. Alth...

UKRAINE - We have been following events as most of you are. Wars cost money and following this conflict will be economic hardship both in Ukraine and Russia. There can be no victory for the ordinary people. Unemployment, economic hardship and mi...

UNIVERSAL CREDIT - Today is the start of a government crackdown aimed at getting people off benefits and into work.  Under the previous rules Claimants would have three months to find a job in an industry where they have experience and/or want t...

NEW JOBCENTRES - Towns and cities across Great Britain are now home to over 150 new temporary jobcentres and Youth Hubs which will support the Government’s new Way to Work campaign to get 500,000 people into work by the end of June. Work coaches...

NEW TECHNOLOGY - The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has awarded a multi-million-pound contract to leading video specialist provider, Involve Visual Collaboration Limited, to provide communications services that support the virtualisation...

DWP INITIATIVE -  A new scheme from the Department of Work & Punishment aims to pressurize claiments into accepting low paid work sooner with the usual threats of santions and stopping benifits to those who have paid for them via their taxes...

HIGH ENERGY COSTS - Michael Clarke, Head of Information Programmes at Turn2us, says: “For millions of us, the announcement of a higher energy price cap will undoubtedly make people feel uncertain and worried about their finances for the future. At a...

HOLIDAY PAY - A heating engineer who claimed he was owed holiday pay by Pimlico Plumbers after the Supreme Court ruled that he was a worker and not self-employed, has successfully appealed against a ruling made by the Employment A...