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PARLIAMENT IN SESSION - MPs head back to Westminster today from their summer recess, straight into the mother of all political storms. Technically there are 58 days until Brexit Day but in the current situation who knows what will happen? ...

UNIVERSAL CREDIT - Claimants reported having less than £100 left at the end of each month after paying their bills, according to recent rearch byCitizens Advice. The benefits freeze is leaving thousands of benefit claimants in the UK without money to...

FUNDING HELP - The Flexible Support Fund (FSF) is a fund offered by local Jobcentres at the discretion of Jobcentre Plus advisers. The fund can help you buy clothes, tools, uniforms and pay for training. Anything that can help you get...

USA - New statistics just released show the following: People born from 1957 to 1964, the latter years of the baby boom, held an average of 12.3 jobs from ages 18 to 52. Nearly half of these jobs were held from ages 18 to 24. On average, men held 12....

WALES: The employment rate in Wales was 75.0%. This is 0.4 percentage points down on the quarter and 0.3 percentage points up on the year. UK: The UK employment rate was 76.1%. This is unchanged on the quarter and 0.6 percentage points up on the year...

FINANCIALLY SQUEEZED PENSIONERS - Pensioners have long been discussed as some of the wealthiest people in the country. For example, in the mid-1980s only around 1% of those aged 65 and over in the UK were living in severe poverty, putting it equ...

SCHOOL UNIFORMS - The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Regina Doherty, T.D., today confirmed that over 130,000 families have received the Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance payment in respect of 239,230 children sinc...

MAJOR HOUSING CONFERANCE - The countdown is on for the Social Housing Scottish Annual Conference which takes place in just over two weeks. Organisers say you can meet 150+ business leaders from across the Scottish housing sector in one place under on...

RENTS SKYROCKET - Some interesting research here showing the relationship between employment and rental increases. Research by lettings management platform Howsy has looked at how employment rates impact rental growth and where is home to the best mi...

YOUNG PEOPLE GET JOBS - In July 2019, 61.8 percent of 16- to 24-year-olds participated in the labor force. That is, they were working or looking for work. The July 2019 labor force participation rate for youth was notably higher than the July rates f...