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In 2019, annual average unemployment rates decreased in 10 states, increased in 1 state, and were little changed in 39 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment-population ratios increased in...

TESCO STORES - We have had some amazing help in 2019/20 from Tescos in the shape of an, Awards for All Grant. Today we completed the end of project paperwork and thanked Groundworks who administered the scheme. Customers put blue buttons into a...

PIP GOVERNMENT REVIEW - Individuals and organisations who have information or experience of how the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment process is working in Northern Ireland are being asked to share their views as part of the second Indep...

REDUNDANCY- Barclays, has announced the bank is closing a major processing centre in Leeds with nearly 800 jobs lost and cutting another 345 jobs across the country. Barclays has today informed around 800 staff in its Millshaw Court office that...

LEGAL – US law is slightly different from UK law though both follow similar concepts. In France, Napoleon codified the law, in other words, instead of the law being developed by judges - as an example - the law is written so every possible outcome ca...

PENSIONS - One of the largest auto-enrolment pension providers in the UK has warned that millions of people saving for retirement through auto-enrolment will continue to pay a disproportionate share of the rising costs of pensions regulation unl...

PARLIAMENT - The Work and Pensions Committee membership for the 2020 Parliament has been agreed by the House. The usual suspects....       The Chair and Members of the Committee are: Stephen Timms MP (Chair) (Labour) Deb...

FINANCE - We have recenty been given this information. Are you finding that there is more month than money?  64% of Brits admit to running out of money before payday, with 28% opting to borrow from friends/family 53% of Brits surveyed couldn’t l...

NO DSS - Amanda Staples and Emma Loffler (shown left) both won out-of-court settlements against "No DSS" letting agents, on the grounds of indirect discrimination. For years landlords have discriminated against tenants on social security In a 20...

HRH HER MAJESTY - The ABC has written to the Queen and expressed our disgust that Iain Duncan Smith could be considered for a Knighthood.   Here is what we had to say:      HRH Her Majesty the Queen Windsor Castle Royal Estate, Wi...