Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Taxpayer Evasion  - yes you heard it correctly.  Anyone contacting the HMRC to talk about Tax Credits may find themselves being held in a queue for a mere 45 minutes to an hour or more, before being politely cut off.   HMRC say that th...

Welfare cuts are on the way in a special budget planned for Wednesday July 8th where Chancellor George Osbourne is expected to explain where the £12bn of welfare cuts are going to come from. This budget will only last till the end of the current year...

We came across a very interesting fact this week. The UK is very close to setting a new record of a billion hours worked in a week. According to Wikipedia - previously in British English (but not in American English), the word "billion" referred to a...

Llewelyn LaVista's campaign to stop the introduction of pre-paid cards has 64,000 signatures now. 'Benefit Street' also started on TV last night - no doubt this will help reinforce the Conservative rhetoric about benefits claimants. Llewelyn has...

Iain Duncan Smith is to return to the DWP as the Work and Pensions Secretary.   George Osborne is considering whether to hold an emergency budget within the next month. This would lead to an autumn spending review in which he will outline the de...

Who will be the new DWP Minister and be tasked with delivering to proposed twelve million in benefit cuts is the next question? With Esther McVey out of the way it is hard to think of whom might take on the position, or let alone want the job? Esther...

The General Election has caused a few surprises to put it mildly, however it has given the Association of Pension and Benefits CIC (the ABC) some cause for celebration. Although the ABC only launched on 05th November 2014, the ABC approached the...

 VOTE TODAY       Even Russell Brand has decided to vote it seems. We urge everyone to join in this election and make your vote count. People have died to get the right to vote, and there has been countless and unimaginable suffer...

Job Services Australia (formerly known as the Job Network) is an Australian Government-funded network of organisations (private and community, and originally also government) that is contracted by the Australian Government, through the Department of...

One of the features of the Lib Dems campaign which looks frankly rather ‘old school ‘compared to their coalition buddies, the Conservative Party, has been the use of print media - spam publications dressed up to look like free local newspapers and de...