Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Use new powers to invest £5 a week in every child, say child poverty campaigners New Scottish Parliament faces massive increases in child poverty £5 top up to child benefit would reduce child poverty by 14% - lifting 30 000 children out o...

Turn2Us have provided some useful information in their newsletter.  The freeze on working age benefits announced in the Summer Budget 2015 means that from April 2016 there will be no increase in benefit rates for four years &...

April 6 is set to be a disastrous day in the history of the state pension as millions of future pensioners find out the government has short-changed them, and millions of existing pensioners see their pensions rise by less each year as a result of un...

‘Truly horrible’ UK current account data: Britain’s current account deficit widened to a record £96.3 billion (€123 billion) in 2015 after a bad fourth quarter for exports. The good news is that the U.K. is grow...

Today’s National Living Wage introduction means a welcome pay rise for over 4 million low-paid people this year, with women and part-time workers most likely to benefit.  “That’s hugely good news on the back of the biggest sque...

ECONOMIC headwinds are making it hard going in the economy.  The eurozone is expected to have been in deflation during March, with headline prices falling 0.1 percent on the year earlier. German unemployment is likely to have ticked up a notch i...

Leave campaigners suggest that the value to U.K. of the EU as a tariff and barrier-free trade market is overstated. Britain can make better alone with its former empire and up and comers such as China. This chart highlights the limits of that theory....

DUNDEE should refuse to force unemployed people to do unpaid work in exchange for benefits, the city’s poverty task force said. The Government’s Workfare programme makes people on benefits carry out unpaid work to gain experience to...

Scottish Unemployed Workers Network activist Tony Cox was arrested on 29th January after Arbroath Jobcentre management called police to stop him representing a vulnerable jobseeker.   What Happened at Arbroath Job Centre On 29 January Tony was...

The National Audit Office are doing a survey on benefit sanctions. You may wish to participate.  Benefit sanctions Scheduled Autumn 2016 Sector Welfare and benefits NAO Team Director: Max Tse Audit Manager: Colin Ross Media contact Rupi Gohlar&n...