Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

From May 2017 to May 2018, real average hourly earnings in the USA were unchanged, on a seasonally adjusted basis. Combined with a 0.3-percent increase in the average workweek, real average weekly earnings increased by 0.3 percent over the year.

The Colchester Jobs Fair is on the Wednesday 20th June 2018. The event is between 10am and 1pm at the Colchester Town Hall, High St, Colchester CO1 1PJ.Free to attend with no registration required.       Image: Colchester Jobs Fai...

The Brighton Jobs Fair is on the Friday 22nd June 2018, at the Jurys Inn Waterfront says the organisers.The event is between 10am and 2pm. Jurys Inn Brighton Waterfront, Kings Rd, Brighton BN1 2GSFree to attend with no registration required.The...

The Social Security Committee has today launched an inquiry into Social Security and In-work Poverty.  Please find attached below a link to the call for written views.  A pdf version is also attached. www.parliament.scot/in-work-poverty The...

Chief Electoral Officer Virginia McVea launches electoral digital registration in Northern Ireland today. For the first time, local people will be able to register to vote online via: https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote Speaking at the launch of...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced that people receiving the highest level of Personal Independence Payments (PIP) will have annual reassessments replaced with reassessments every ten years. Image: Laura Cockram, Head of Po...

Santander responded to our ‘Iceland’ complaint today. Mr A. placed an order with Iceland for home delivery just after midnight on a Thursday. The payment was approved by the bank at 5:30am in the morning, but Iceland could not deliver til...

The ABC had the chance to talk to the DWP central communications team this morning about the National Audit Office (NAO) report on the roll-out of Universal Credit (UC) today. We have given the DWP a right-to-reply below:  A DWP spokesman said:...

The economic output statistics were published today by the Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency. Services Sector Output Output in the services sector increased in real terms (by 0.7%) over the first quarter of 2018 (January to March), wi...

The Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs (CPIH) 12-month inflation rate was 2.3% in May 2018, up from 2.2% in April 2018. Rising motor fuel prices produced the largest upward contribution to the change in the rate betw...