Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Peers will today (Monday 27 March) vote on a motion tabled by the Liberal Democrats that would kill off Government proposals to severely restrict disability benefits. The Government has announced a tightening of the criteria for claimants of Personal...

Plaid Cymru has attacked Labour AMs in the National Assembly for voting – for the 6th time in as many years – against a Plaid Cymru amendment to outlaw the use of zero hour contracts in the public sector in Wales. Earlier this month, Labo...

ABC progress is going well indeed and I would like to thank all those students past and present who have done such an outstanding job. We are of course talking about our student team at Essex University, Students Union, VTeam which stands for volunte...

More and more people are facing benefit sanctions say Unite the Union. Half a million people have had their benefits suddenly stopped by sanctions in the last 12 months. That’s half a million people, many of whom have been plunged into pov...

Cheques paid into your account will soon be able to be cleared the same day. Currently cheques can take as much as six days to clear. These changes will be phased in from October this year. This development has come from the Cheque and Credit Clearin...

Sixteen of the best-off former BHS executives set to benefit most from Sir Philip’s out-of-court settlement A first look at the detail of Sir Philip Green’s out-of-court settlement with TPR on the BHS pension fund deficit by the Work and...

This is from the Resolution Foundation report you can download below.  From its announcement at the Summer Budget in July 2015, it was clear that the National Living Wage (NLW) would be a transformative policy, significantly raising the legal wa...

Work and Pensions Committee Wednesday 22 March 2017 Meeting starts at 9.45am Subject: Self-employment and the gig economy The disparities between self-employed people and employed people in terms of access to benefits and the steps that should b...

Median pay for the chief executives of 104 of the biggest American companies rose 6.8 percent for fiscal 2016 to $11.5 million, on track to set a post-recession record, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. “Twice as many companies...

Responding to official figures showing the number of people living in poverty in the UK now stands at 14 million, Campbell Robb, chief executive at the independent Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), said:  “These troubling figures are warni...