Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

EXTRA SUPPORT - Children and families will get extra support this winter, with councils given new funding to ensure vulnerable households do not go hungry or without essential items. £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme to support children, families and t...

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the start of National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) 2020. NAW 2020 includes a series of events held nationwide as thousands of participants celebrate the dynamic and evolving wo...

NATIONAL LIVING WAGE - Today, thousands of people will get a boost in pay as a new Living Wage rate comes into force.  The real Living Wage, which is calculated independently of the Government, is a lifeline for people who work for the 7,00...

US Unemployment - In the week ending October 31, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 751,000, a decrease of 7,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised up by 7,000 from 751,000 to 758,...

 RENTERS - Protection extended during Covid-19 lockdown Renters will be protected during the national restrictions, with no bailiff enforcement action, the Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has announced today (5 November 2020). Measures, includi...

FURLOUGH SCHEME - Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced in the past hour his plans to extend the furlough scheme to 31 March 2021 in order to "give businesses security through the winter." Full details are to be published on 10 November which wil...

UNIVERSAL CREDIT - Will Quince, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions has made this statement in the Houses of Parliament: 'The Government introduced a package of temporary welfare measures worth around £9.3 billion thi...

POLITICAL EMPLOYMENT - Over 16,000 people were employed in the US political organizations industry in March 2020. Political organizations employment has been rising since early 2019. It has been above 10,000 since July 2019, which is the first t...

MINIMUM INCOME FLOOR - To remain suspended. The Minimum Income Floor (MIF) for self-employed Universal Credit claimants will remain suspended until the end of April 2021, extending a vital lifeline for hundreds of thousands of people, Thérèse Coffey,...

COLD WEATHER HEATING HELP - The Government says its Cold Weather Payment scheme will begin again on November 1. Rules say you will get a payment if the average temperature in your area is recorded as (or forecast to be) zero degrees celsius or b...