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ROUGH SLEEPING - The Prime Minister has announced an extra £236 million to help get people off the streets and appointed an independent adviser to lead an urgent review into the causes of rough sleeping.  Commenting on this news, Jon Sparke...

IAIN DUNCAN SMITHS KNIGHTHOOD - More than 150,000 people have signed a petition to prevent Iain Duncan Smith – the architect of universal credit and the “bedroom tax” – from receiving his knighthood. The recent outpouring of emotion in a speech by De...

FOODBANKS CRISIS - Global Foodbanks are calling for help due to the effects of the COVID-19 impact on food banks across Asia-Pacific.The food banks in the Asia-Pacific region are already affected by wild fires, social unrest and other chall...

DISABILITY - Angus Silverstone, 58, of Melton, who went on hunger strike for 47 days until council moved him and DWP paid his universal credit and PIP. He has now just moved into his new ground floor flat. He claimed: “The DWP is killi...

UNITED STATES - Decades Old Rule Updated to Reflect Today’s Workforce Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul announced a new final rule today, modernizing an agency disability rule that was introduced in 1978 and has remained unchanged. The ne...

Job Fair - The Braintree are bringing back the Braintree Job Fair this year on Saturday 7th March. The Job Fair is run in partnership with Job Centre Plus, and proudly sponsored by Braintree Village, to enable people from across the district to...

United States - On Tuesday, the Department announced investments in 28 public-private apprenticeship partnerships totaling nearly $100 million through the Apprenticeship: Closing the Skills Gap grant program. These grants will support the traini...

UK EMPLOYMENT - For the three months ending December 2019, the highest employment rate estimate in the UK was in the South West (80.1%) and the lowest was in the North East (71.1%). ABC Note: an ONS report for February 2020 estimates that a record 97...

NATIONAL SAVINGS - It has today been announced that National Saving has slashed its interest rates and Premium Bond prizes dealing yet another blow to the nation’s savers who have already suffered due to continuously low interest rates.  Founder...

LIVING ALONE - A new analysis of EU-level data by Eurofound shows that one in three households in the EU is now single occupancy. Germany has the largest proportion of the population living in single-person households, and large increases in the...