Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Live from the House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee EVIDENCE SESSION: Local welfare safety net 9.30am, Wednesday 2 December, Wilson Room, Portcullis House The Work and Pensions Committee is holding an inquiry into the “local welfa...

Work and Pensions Committee launches inquiry on funeral poverty and bereavement benefits Coinciding with a week of BBC programming on death and bereavement, the Commons Work and Pensions Committee is launching an inquiry into “funeral poverty&r...

Katie Hopkins has been in the news you may know.  Students at Brunel University turned their backs on Katie visiting the University for a Benefits Debate and they walked out on mass. The student body was very unhappy at allowing her to...

Irish Senator Mary Moran has warmly welcomed the Government announcement on the North East / North West action plan for jobs announced today. "Since the national plan for jobs was announced in 2012 more than 20,000 extra people are employed In the No...

The end of the Mandatory Work Activity scheme [hidden in the Autumn Statement] is good news. The ABC have long argued that the scheme amounted to slave labour in essence or indentured servitude. The Poundland case was to...

House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee EVIDENCE SESSION: Local welfare safety net 9.30am, Wednesday 2 December, Wilson Room, Portcullis House The Work and Pensions Committee is holding an inquiry into the “local welfare safety net&...

We do like these speeches by Joan Burton TD. The Irish have a way with words and at the ABC we find these speeches very enlightening as we can compare them with what’s happening in the UK and the rest of Europe.  SPEECH BY JOAN BURTON TD&n...

Everyone is claiming success on the Tax Credit reversal announced in the autumn statement. We recieved a letter today from Will Quince MP (Cons Party). George Osborne says in his Spending Review speech that the money raised through the...

In yet another case found against the DWP a Court has found the welfare secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, unlawfully discriminated against disabled people by failing to exempt their carers from the benefit cap, a high court judge has ruled. Mr Justice Co...

England illegal money lending team Social Media Campaign Week Starting Monday 30th November 2015 The England Illegal Money Lending Team (IMLT) campaign promoting the Stop Loan Sharks message will launch on Monday 30th November 2015 and run until Chri...