Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

In the wake of senior Tory MPs calling on the Prime Minister to end the benefit freeze, the SNP Shadow Work & Pensions spokesperson has renewed the party’s calls for an end to Tory austerity cuts to social security spending. The benefit freeze wa...

The ABC is becoming more and more international. We were started as a European Association, but we are growing all the time. We have just received this information today from our new-found friends in Canada. Food banks across Canada help over 860, 00...

Esther McVey, Secretary of State for the Department for Work and Pensions, made a statement in the House of Commons on Universal Credit. Following the announcement in the 2018 Budget that Universal Credit would be giving £1 billion of transition...

The Big Lottery Fund, the UK’s largest community funder, has today published a new report that will help build the evidence base for the Government’s dormant accounts financial inclusion initiative. The report - Understanding the decision making of p...

Today is the fifth anniversary of the launch of the ABC website (2014). We chose November 5th as it is a good day for revolutionaries. It is scary how much water has flowed over the dam. We are still here and still making progress. We thank all those...

We must congratulate Lidl’s for stocking a razor brand called the Cien. We have been using this razor for a couple of weeks and we are grateful we have been released from the outrageous prices of the Gillette 'Mach' multi-blade refills which, like ma...

The national rollout of universal credit has been repeatedly delayed after MPs and charities issued dire warnings about the impact it was having on vulnerable people. Labour, along with the Church of England and hundreds of charities, has c...

Next week, 5th and 6th Nov, Knowledge Pathways International  are organising two events in partnership with European Commission as part of the European Skills Week. Knowledge Pathways International is the ONLY organisation in the East of the Uni...

A campaign to see millions of pounds wrongly held by HMRC repaid to 4000 workers across the UK has been won after a parliamentary campaign led by Airdrie & Shotts MP Neil Gray. The Roadchef Employee Benefit Trust has been in dispute with HMRC ove...

A DWP Barrister stopped Simon Collyer's case being heard in the Chelmsford County Court; 26 October 2018. The government has cut the Legal Aid budget by one third and without legal represntaion in Court the DWP were able to use technical arguments to...