Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

JOB FAIR - Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey MLA has announced a major Job Fair in Belfast this March. The Job Fair, which will be held at the Europa Hotel in Belfast on Tuesday 24 March 2020 between 11am and 4pm, has been organised by the Departme...

AVERAGE INCOMES - Median household disposable income in the UK was £29,600 in financial year ending (FYE) 2019, based on estimates from the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS's) Living Costs and Food Survey. Growth in median income stalled between...

REPOSSESION'S - The latest research from letting and estate agent, Benham and Reeves, has revealed that the number of property repossessions seen across England and Wales over the last 12 months has dropped -2% year on year.   The data...

In 2019, annual average unemployment rates decreased in 10 states, increased in 1 state, and were little changed in 39 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment-population ratios increased in...

TESCO STORES - We have had some amazing help in 2019/20 from Tescos in the shape of an, Awards for All Grant. Today we completed the end of project paperwork and thanked Groundworks who administered the scheme. Customers put blue buttons into a...

PIP GOVERNMENT REVIEW - Individuals and organisations who have information or experience of how the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment process is working in Northern Ireland are being asked to share their views as part of the second Indep...

REDUNDANCY- Barclays, has announced the bank is closing a major processing centre in Leeds with nearly 800 jobs lost and cutting another 345 jobs across the country. Barclays has today informed around 800 staff in its Millshaw Court office that...

LEGAL – US law is slightly different from UK law though both follow similar concepts. In France, Napoleon codified the law, in other words, instead of the law being developed by judges - as an example - the law is written so every possible outcome ca...

PENSIONS - One of the largest auto-enrolment pension providers in the UK has warned that millions of people saving for retirement through auto-enrolment will continue to pay a disproportionate share of the rising costs of pensions regulation unl...

PARLIAMENT - The Work and Pensions Committee membership for the 2020 Parliament has been agreed by the House. The usual suspects....       The Chair and Members of the Committee are: Stephen Timms MP (Chair) (Labour) Deb...