Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Civil Rights campaigners the; Association of Pension & Benefits Claimants CIC, simply called the ABC for short, has asked the Shadow Deputy Education Minister Angela Rayner MP and Colchester MP Will Quince to ask Trading Standards and the HMRC Mi...

Commenting on the news today (Monday) that the government is set to ban restaurant owners from taking a share of tips from their staff, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:        Image: TUC General Secr...

Today kicks off the 6th Annual Challenge Poverty Week.  This year looks to be the biggest yet with over 100 activities happening across Scotland, with upcycling classes and family fun days to workshops on innovative alternatives to foodbank...

The Social Security Administration and its Office of the Inspector General (OIG) today announced three new Cooperative Disability Investigations (CDI) Units recently opened across the country. As part of the nationwide CDI Program, the new units will...

DWP work coaches could see their workload quadruple as Universal Credit rolls out, expert witnesses warned Holyrood. Currently each work coach supports 85 claimants – with that figure expected to rise to 373 by 2024-25. The startling figure adds to f...

The Chancellor Philip Hammond has announced that October 29th will be the date of the 2018 Autumn budget, a date that was likely picked to avoid clashing with the final stages of the Brexit negotiations which are scheduled for a special European...

The top five jobs that 16-21-year olds wanted to do when they were older remained unchanged. Teaching ranked in the top five jobs for 22-29-year olds in 2017. Professions have changed over the year with IT professionals soaring by 2017, however const...

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Esther McVey today urges parents with children under 12 to ensure they receive the valuable National Insurance credits which may improve their State Pension income. Some parents may inadvertently be missing o...

From 27 September 2018, the Universal Credit live service helpline will be open from Monday to Friday, between 9am and 4pm. The change to the opening hours comes ahead of the planned closure of the live service by spring 2019. The number of people co...

Success for new Find a job service Forty million job searches have been made through Find a job since it was launched in May 2018. The service lets people advertise, search and apply for jobs for free. More than half a million jobseekers now have ver...