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HELP NEEDED - To the young lady who contated us about a Universal Credit issue 29/06/2022 your voicemail message was deleted in error. Shows we are human after all.   ABC Comment have your say below  

UNIVERSAL CREDIT - Claimants are being illegally forced to repay their entire universal credit (UC) award even though they were fully entitled to it, the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has revealed.  Third party debt collectors are even...

EXTRA HELP - Extra help is available for claimants struggling with the cost of living crisis. July 6: National Insurance threshold raised On July 6, the threshold of what you can earn before paying National Insurance will rise from £9,880 to £12,570...

COST OF LIVING - Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced his plan to help UK households struggling with the cost of living crisis. The announcement comes after Brits were hit by a series of price increases. Last week, households learned that inflat...

UNIVERSAL CREDIT - Today letters will be sent to 500 people who receive one of the benefits being replaced by universal credit (UC), marking the resumption of the government’s “managed migration” to UC after it was paused during the pandemic. Be...

UNIVERSAL CREDIT - A hugely challenging part of the rollout of universal credit recommences today. Once fully rolled out, universal credit is expected to be received by around 7.2 million working-age families. Most of that rollout has already happene...

LOCAL ELECTIONS - We have been much slower posting of late as we have been soooooo...busy. Bout of coughing sickness here in the office. Very nasty but quickly passed.  Simon Collyer, ABC founder, has been invited to act as a Local Election Medi...

WARNING VERY GRAPHIC - We were sent details of this website this evening. These images are very shocking. Please think before opening this link  https://ukraine450.org.ua  ABC Comment have your say below:  

BENEFITS RISE - The Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed increases in payments for benefits and payments from next week. All benefits are set to rise from April 11 this year in line with the State Pension. This is usually calculated by...

DISABILITY BENEFITS - Since 2013, hundreds of thousands of benefits decisions have been overturned across the UK after disabled people battled a "complex and distressing" appeals system to win their case at tribunal, disability charities say. An...