Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

The U.S. created 213,000 new jobs in June. In a surprise, the unemployment rate rose to 4% from 3.8%, the Labor Department said Friday. This could be due to the end of the school year. Wage costs are slowly rising due to the shortage of lab...

More than 180 households from across Bournemouth and Poole, who have been at risk of losing their home have avoided eviction thanks to vital advice and support from the Council’s free Housing Early Prevention Service. The service, which started...

Disabled People Against Cuts demand McVey must go for lies over Universal Credit. Disabled People Against Cut have said: We don’t normally do petitions – but if there is a chance of getting McVey sacked – even a slim chance –...

When Monese founder Norris Koppel first moved to the UK from Estonia, he faced a frustrating experience that is all too common. With no UK credit history or utility bills proving his address, he was immediately denied a bank account. Without one, he...

Tweet by Frank Field MP: This is so serious that I will ask the Speaker tomorrow for an Urgent Question so that the Secretary of State returns to the House to withdraw what the NAO believes to be totally inaccurate comments, as DWP officials well kno...

Campaign began in 2016 after a Derbyshire sales manager lost her job following cancer diagnosis North Lanarkshire Council is backing a campaign which helps employees who become terminally ill at work. The local authority is the latest employer to si...

Nearly 240 employers who underpaid the National Living and Minimum Wage named today £1.44m in back pay has been identified for 22,400 workers, with the employers fined additional £1.97m Employers underpaid workers by taking deductions fro...

McVey must come back to the commons over Universal Credit.                 The SNP’s Social Justice spokesperson Neil Gray MP has said Esther McVey must return to the Commons immediately to provide a...

Over 80 domestic violence and abuse incidents every day in Northern Ireland – working together we can help stop it Last year nearly 30,000 domestic motivated incidents took place in Northern Ireland and tragically around five people each year a...

The social security benefits available to people who are in work but struggling on low incomes is to be the focus of an inquiry by Scottish Social Security Committee. MSPs want to understand if the social security systems are doing enough to help peo...