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UNIVERSAL CREDIT - Today letters will be sent to 500 people who receive one of the benefits being replaced by universal credit (UC), marking the resumption of the government’s “managed migration” to UC after it was paused during the pandemic. Be...

UNIVERSAL CREDIT - A hugely challenging part of the rollout of universal credit recommences today. Once fully rolled out, universal credit is expected to be received by around 7.2 million working-age families. Most of that rollout has already happene...

LOCAL ELECTIONS - We have been much slower posting of late as we have been soooooo...busy. Bout of coughing sickness here in the office. Very nasty but quickly passed.  Simon Collyer, ABC founder, has been invited to act as a Local Election Medi...

WARNING VERY GRAPHIC - We were sent details of this website this evening. These images are very shocking. Please think before opening this link  https://ukraine450.org.ua  ABC Comment have your say below:  

BENEFITS RISE - The Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed increases in payments for benefits and payments from next week. All benefits are set to rise from April 11 this year in line with the State Pension. This is usually calculated by...

DISABILITY BENEFITS - Since 2013, hundreds of thousands of benefits decisions have been overturned across the UK after disabled people battled a "complex and distressing" appeals system to win their case at tribunal, disability charities say. An...

BUDGET - Please see this budget summary below.  James Andrews, Senior Personal Finance Editor at money.co.uk, said: “Rishi Sunak handed a tax cut worth £330 to millions of Britons today - with the promise of more to come. “He also announced plan...

UKRAINE - We have been following events as most of you are. Wars cost money and following this conflict will be economic hardship both in Ukraine and Russia. There can be no victory for the ordinary people. Unemployment, economic hardship and mi...

UNIVERSAL CREDIT - Today is the start of a government crackdown aimed at getting people off benefits and into work.  Under the previous rules Claimants would have three months to find a job in an industry where they have experience and/or want t...

NEW JOBCENTRES - Towns and cities across Great Britain are now home to over 150 new temporary jobcentres and Youth Hubs which will support the Government’s new Way to Work campaign to get 500,000 people into work by the end of June. Work coaches...