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DWP CASELOAD - Minister for Welfare Delivery Will Quince MP confirms that universal credit case managers have an average caseload of more than 450 cases each. That means that is has dropped from the 650+ - a figure that the ABC were given from B...

RESIDENTIAL LETTING - The estimated number of landlords in the private rental sector has shrunk to a seven-year low, according to a recent report. Across Britain, there were 2.66 million landlords in 2019, Hamptons International calculated. Hamp...

BUDGET - Rishi Sunak has been appointed Britain’s new chancellor of the exchequer at a time that the government is moving strangely leftwards.  Rishi whose father was a doctor went to posh Winchester College and then to Oxford University. H...

STATE PENSION - Mark Tami, the Labour MP for Alyn and Deeside is bringing pressure to have rules changed after it was found that people are becoming at risk of hardship because of the long wait between the end of payment of Universal Credit and...

ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE - A Dutch court has ruled that an automated surveillance system using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect welfare fraud violates the European Convention on Human Rights, and has ordered the government to cease using it immed...

POVERTY - Families already living under the poverty line have been pushed deeper into poverty since 2012, new analysis from Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) shows.  And, the analysis finds, the number of children in poverty in households w...

US JOB OPENINGS - The number of job openings in the US fell to 6.4 million (-364,000) on the last business day of December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the month, hires and separations were little changed at&nbs...

SUICIDES - The DWP is facing calls for a full investigation following the National Audit Office investigation into deaths by suicide. Sixty-nine deaths are very likely to be the thin edge of the wedge as the organisation has done everything in its po...

LINKEDIN - The ABC has started a LinkedIn Business Page:  Do please drop by:  LinkedIn is an American business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5,...

IRISH ELECTION - The election in Ireland has changed the electoral landscape. The left-wing nationalist party Sinn Féin rode into first place ahead of the traditionally dominant Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil for the first time in the history of the...