Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Jeremy Corbyn  has been vigorously engaging the government over sanctions at PM’s Question Time. The argument that benefits sanctions and Work Capability Assessments are fair to taxpayers is complete nonsense. The latter assessments c...

Thinking of working abroad?  Job hiring in the UAE remained generally weak, with vacancies posted online registering a significant decline in September compared to a year earlier. Jobseekers in the UAE have been facing difficulty finding relevan...

Tiverton Jobcentre are on the move folks. Don't get caught out going to the old location.   

Katharine Round’s documentary The Divide is a short, sharp, shock of a film, based on Richard G Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s book The Spirit Level. We have already fetured the Spirit Level and its research.  The Divide tells the...

The  International Stress Management Association (ISMA) is running the National Stress Awareness Day today. Many people on benefits live under acute stress at times. We have published a downloadable guide for battling stress as an atta...

House of Lords Wednesday 2 November, after 3am. Will be debated:  Concerns from Women Against State Pension Inequality about the reduction of the state pension age for women - Baroness Bakewell

The voluntary wage has been increased by 20p to £8.45 an hour. In London, it has gone up by 35p to £9.75. The changes announced by the Living Wage Foundation affect 3,000 Living Wage accredited employers. The rate, calculated independentl...

Work and Pensions Committee Wednesday 2 November 2016 Meeting starts at 9.30am Subject: Pension Protection Fund and the Pensions Regulator Witnesses: Malcolm Booth, Chief Executive Officer, National Federation of Occupational Pensioners, Neil Ca...

HMRC estimate that its specialist unit dedicated to collecting tax from high net worth individuals raised £416m from its compliance work with this group in 2015-16 according to a report today by the National Audit Office (NAO). This is separate...

Department for Work and Pensions’ long-awaited Green Paper consultation on supporting more sick and disabled people in to work is being reviewd shortly. Among the measures being reviewed as part of the consultation is the controversial Wor...