Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

FOOD ASSISTANCE - Additional money will sit alongside the £6.5 billion of extra support being provided through the welfare system to support the most vulnerable in society. An additional £63 million has been confirmed by government  (Thursd...

ANTI-RACISM If you like us were appalled by the recent events in the US - below is are resources you can use from the US to learn more about combatting racism. It is a US-based list but very useful none the less.  Before that however we would li...

EVICTION EXTENSION - Brilliant victory today. The Association of Pension & Benefits Claimants CIC, Crisis, Shelter and the Housing Federation have all been lobbying for an extension to the Protection from Eviction freeze by the government th...

US UNEMPLOYMENT GROWS - The Labor Department reported that 1.9 million Americans filed new claims for state unemployment insurance last week, along with 623,000 new claims for federal aid available to the self-employed and others not normally eligibl...

HEALTH & SAFETY - Brendan Ryan, MD of 2468 sent us this handy guide if you are getting back into the workplace.  Working Safely during Corona Virus - downloadable guide & check list for employers An overview of UK government advice...

THOUSANDS - of disabled people have been missing out on an emergency out of work benefit top-up to help them through the Covid-19 crisis because the Government says it will take too long to make changes. Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) is u...

DWP COMPLAINTS - Our friends at Benefits at Work sent this today:  DWP Not guilty after all The government has found the DWP blameless in relation to universal credit (UC) adverts last year which caused an outcry and were banned by the Advertisi...

EVICTIONS - Government and many landlords have put in place temporary measures to help tenants keep their homes in the current crisis. Sustaining people’s incomes through the furlough scheme and calling a halt to evictions have created a temporary re...

HOUSE PRICES – are taking a hit due to the pandemic. The latest index shows house prices are down -1.7% month on month, although they are still 1.8% higher on an annual basis. Whether this is the start of a trend or just a blip who knows. Marc von Gr...

ONS NEET FIGURES - The main points out today. There were an estimated 771,000 young people (aged 16 to 24 years) in the UK who were not in education, employment or training (NEET) in January to March 2020; this was an increase of 6,000 compared with...