Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

More women, disabled and BAME entering high skilled training places The number of people starting a modern apprenticeship has increased by over 500 since the same period last year, latest stats show - as Scotland marks Apprenticeship Week. When compa...

Cold weather payments have kicked in across large parts of the UK. Low temperatures mean if you live in one of the postcodes below you could be in line for a payment of £25. Cold weather payments are a right if you are claiming certain ben...

Further Cold Weather Payments as temperatures drop The latest spell of cold weather has triggered a further round of Cold Weather Payments for parts of Northern Ireland. A further £1million will be paid automatically to approximately 43,000 peo...

Brexit will enter into force on 29 March 2019. Without an agreement on the terms of future relations between the European Union and the United Kingdom, the UK will revert to accessing the EU single market under WTO rules and reestablishing customs co...

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has calculated that if the proportion of GDP made up by wages were the same now as in the early 1990s, working people in the EU would have earned an extra €1,764 in 2017, rising to an extra €4,1...

Due to extremely adverse weather conditions, the Care Quality Commission contact centre will be operating at limited capacity today (28 February) and tomorrow (29 February). The phone lines are closed, however they  are responding to emails - pl...

Due to extreme weather conditions, many jobcentres across Scotland have closed and will remain closed until 12pm tomorrow (01/03/2018)   ‘Payments will still take place as normal, however all interviews at the affected sites will be re-sch...

Over the past decades, the gender wage gap has come down, but on average, women's wages are still around 20% lower than men's. There are lots of reasons for the scale and persistence of this gap, but new IFS research shows that one important factor i...

The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection is aware that the expected severe weather conditions this week may make it difficult for customers whose payment is due on Friday. Social Welfare payments made on Friday include: ·&nbs...

The Northern Ireland Benefits Statistics Summary, providing an overview of the main DfC administered benefits as at November 2017, was published by the Department for Communities today. Unless stated otherwise, the figures are at November 2017. ...