Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

The Brexit crisis has triggered a big move in public opinion, if the polls are to be believed. With a swing of about 1.5pc from Conservatives to Labour over November, Labour is now just ahead of the Conservatives in terms of the predicted popular vot...

The National Landlords Association have recently drawn our attention to these changes:  The DWP has announced landlord escalation routes for Universal Credit Live Service claimants at risk of eviction to go live on Monday 3 December. 1.1. Landlo...

The High Court will hear a legal challenge tomorrow (Tuesday 27th & 28th November 2018) against the government’s Universal Credit payment system which has left some families worse off and coping with dramatically fluctuating income from mont...

We it has been done, the EU administration negotiating a deal that transposes into law something it’s deeply convinced is totally bonkers. And something that UK citizens also sense is completely bonkers as well. A deal worse than the one we have alre...

Hundreds of civilian staff are being paid less than the real Living Wage by the Ministry of Defence, it has been revealed.  In figures revealed under Freedom of Information law, the MoD admitted that 223 civilian staff in Scotland were paid unde...

We may be a month away from Christmas but here are some important dates for your diary.   Its not going to be much of a Christmas for many, but let us all hang-on and hope for better times.   Image left: Scrooge from a Christmas Carole...

A group of MPs warn today in an urgent report calling on ministers to push back any vote on the flagship welfare reform. The Commons Work and Pensions Committee claims that getting “managed migration” – the process of transferring clai...

For July to September 2018, there were 760,000 young people (aged 16 to 24 years) in the UK who were not in education, employment or training (NEET); this number decreased by 23,000 from April to June 2018 and was down 29,000 when compared with July...

The Association of Pension & Benefits CIC is warning of a growing crisis in Essex that is being caused by Universal Credit (UC). A spokesperson for the DWP Basildon processing center has today warned that staff - each managing around six hundred...

Illegal and inhumane practices in the world's fishing sector must be stamped out and replaced with sustainable ones to support the livelihoods of one of every 10 people on the planet, FAO and the Vatican said today. "We convey a joint message urging...