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French President Emmanuel Macron’s government will tackle social spending in the next wave of its reforms as weaker than expected growth puts pressure on the budget deficit, the prime minister said on Sunday. Macron has so far largely turned a deaf e...

This toolkit will guide and support in getting started with age inclusion in the workplace and includes a three-step process based on Look, Listen, Act. The population is ageing: by 2030, half of all adults in the UK will be over 50 years old. The wo...

Universal Credit supports you if you are on a low income or out of work. It includes a monthly payment to help with your living costs. This site will help you understand what Universal Credit means for you. If you want to go straight to making a clai...

Summer jobs help young people gain workplace skills that will provide a great platform for their future careers. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has launched a summer jobs campaign to make it easier for people to find summer and seasonal j...

Up to 6,000 vulnerable people will receive rapid specialist assessments and support under new measures in the government’s rough sleeping strategy. Backed by £100 million of funding, the strategy sets out the next steps towards achieving our aim...

From April to July 2018, the number of employed youth 16 to 24 years old increased by 2.0 million to 20.9 million, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This year, 55.0 percent of young people were employed in July, little changed from...

Adam Rowe's Edinburgh Fring Festival joke:  “Working at the jobcentre has to be a tense job,” he pointed out to his audience. “Knowing that if you get fired, you still have to come in the next day.”

The overall cost of a child over 18 years (including rent and childcare) is £150, 753 for a couple and £183,335 for a lone parent.  But work doesn’t pay low-income families enough to meet a no-frills standard of living, new research from Child P...

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Landlords in Argyll and Bute are being offered free advice on how the transition from Housing Benefit to Universal Credit will affect them. With support from Argyll and Bute Council’s benefit unit, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will be h...