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STAFF ON STRIKE - 200 Universal Credit call handers, members of the Public Commercial Services union (PCS) will stage a two-day strike next week after "running out of patience" with what they say are cuts and overwork. More than 200 workers are set t...

STRIPPERS ON UNIVERSAL CREDIT - Universal Credit claimants have been told they can work as strippers after a blunder on the Department for Work and Pensions website. In a post, which has now been removed, the government suggested the kind of "work yo...

This a heart warming story from the Law Society.  A young woman who was homeless while taking the Legal Practice Course (LPC) has secured a training contract at a firm with offices in London and Brighton. April Britton, 22, was studying for the...

CHILDREN IN POVERTY -  Shipping Container Homes, were often on unused land earmarked for development, small and overcrowded, and in areas of antisocial behaviour, the Children’s Commissioner for England said, in a report released recen...

AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY - Jobcentre Plus offices and phonelines in England, Scotland and Wales will be closed on Monday 26 August. To make sure people receive their payments on a day when Jobcentre Plus offices are open, some benefits due to be paid on M...

INCREASE WAGES - British think tank the New Economics Foundation (NEF) has proposed that minimum wages and statutory paid holiday entitlement be increased in order to improve the UK’s productivity. The Time for demand: B...

PENSIONS UPDATE -The UK leaving the EU will not affect your entitlement to continue receiving your UK State Pension if you live in the EU, EEA or Switzerland. The UK government would wish to continue uprating pensions but wil...

LOW TAX GUY - Chancellor Sajid Javid has said he wants to simplify the UK’s tax system ahead of his first Budget this autumn. In the interview with The Times, Mr Javid said he was a “low tax guy”, but added that it was important to “always be thinkin...

PENSIONS FEARS -The state pension age is set to rise to 75 over the next 16 years — based on a plan by Iain Duncan Smiths Think Tank Centre for Social Justice states the Mirror Newspaper.  A report out by the Centre for Social Justice says Brita...

JOB FAIR NEWS - Caerphilly Council’s ever popular Live Vacancy event is set to return to Sue Noake Leisure Centre in Ystrad Mynach on 12th September from 2pm to 6pm.The event, which is in its third year, attracts hundreds of young people aged 16 to 2...