Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Main points for May to July 2015 There were 31.09 million people in work, 42,000 more than for February to April 2015 and 413,000 more than for a year earlier.  There were 22.74 million people working full-time, 361,000 more than for a year earl...

The rise of Jeremy Corbyn, to the point where he has become the next Labour leader is pretty amazing. The opening up  of the franchise for the Labour leadership election in order to connect Labour with a wider base gave Corbyn a chance. By reach...

 TRAVEL-TO-INTERVIEW –Unfair Contracts This submission is from Mr Collyer the founder of the Association of Pension & Benefits Claimants CIC to the DWP Work & Pernsions Committee.  The ABC believes that the Travel-to-Interview schem...

To debate a vote of no confidence in DWP secretary Ian Duncan Smith For denying the existence of, and refusing to publish data on the deaths of claimants of incapacity benefit and employment and support allowance between November 2011 and May 2014. T...

The ABC have also been in the press recently as we have been battling with the Department of Business Skills and innovation. Government grants have a system where money has to be spent and then evidenced before you can claim the funds back. This prej...

The ABC featured on the BBC Radio Programme: The World Tonight. Not quite are fifteen minuets of fame, more like fifteen seconds. Listen to the Yvette Cooper report which was very balanced and accurate. https://www.google.com/analytics/web/?hl=en#rep...

UNITED Nations officials will visit the UK in the next few months to investigate whether Iain Duncan Smith’s welfare reforms have led to “grave or systematic violations” of disabled people’s human rights. A formal investigation has already been launc...

We attended the Yvette Cooper MP leadership roadshow, at the in Colchester Arts Centre and were then interviewed by BBC Radio journalist, Paul Moss.   Yvette came across as a very polished speaker. As one who was trained in speech and drama...

Employment in the EU is rising. It is actually has been below 11% since February 2012. European Union statistics agency Eurostat said the jobless rate in the currency union fell to 10.9% in July from 11.1% the month before. The fall was helped by a s...

The U.K plans to jail people working illegally in England and Wales for up to six months in a bid to deter undocumented migrants, particularly the current influx of asylum-seekers from Calais. And takeaway restaurants and liquor stores, long the doma...