Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

BUDGET - Please see this budget summary below.  James Andrews, Senior Personal Finance Editor at money.co.uk, said: “Rishi Sunak handed a tax cut worth £330 to millions of Britons today - with the promise of more to come. “He also announced plan...

UKRAINE - We have been following events as most of you are. Wars cost money and following this conflict will be economic hardship both in Ukraine and Russia. There can be no victory for the ordinary people. Unemployment, economic hardship and mi...

UNIVERSAL CREDIT - Today is the start of a government crackdown aimed at getting people off benefits and into work.  Under the previous rules Claimants would have three months to find a job in an industry where they have experience and/or want t...

NEW JOBCENTRES - Towns and cities across Great Britain are now home to over 150 new temporary jobcentres and Youth Hubs which will support the Government’s new Way to Work campaign to get 500,000 people into work by the end of June. Work coaches...

NEW TECHNOLOGY - The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has awarded a multi-million-pound contract to leading video specialist provider, Involve Visual Collaboration Limited, to provide communications services that support the virtualisation...

DWP INITIATIVE -  A new scheme from the Department of Work & Punishment aims to pressurize claiments into accepting low paid work sooner with the usual threats of santions and stopping benifits to those who have paid for them via their taxes...

HIGH ENERGY COSTS - Michael Clarke, Head of Information Programmes at Turn2us, says: “For millions of us, the announcement of a higher energy price cap will undoubtedly make people feel uncertain and worried about their finances for the future. At a...

UNIVERSAL CREDIT - Approximately half a million Brits are newly eligible following a change to the rules last year. More than 1.3 million people could be missing out on Universal Credit payments of up to £7,300 a year, according to data from ​​the Ne...

LIZ TRUSS - Liz Truss’s trip to Australia on a private jet is scandalous. If you are flying around in Europe and you have a number of meetings that you need to get done in a day, a private jet can be cost effective against airline flights with a...

SANCTIONS - Jobseekers are going to be forced to look for jobs outside their chosen field of work  According to the BBC, from Thursday, people will have to look outside their sectors after just four weeks, rather than three months, or face sanct...