Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

DEALING WITH DEBT - The COVID-19 pandemic has set everything in disarray and has brought many problems to society. In addition to health and societal problems, it also caused great financial stress on people. This has especially been the case fo...

DWP POSTAL ADDRESSES - We get asked quite a bit, where customers should send mail items. Below is a list of DWP mail handling sites. It is important to get the right one.   The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is modernising how it re...

ILLNESS - Sorry folks, we have had a serious bought of the flu here at ABC HQ. We apologise for being off the ball for 2/3 weeks. Very nasty it was too but we are getting better everyday.  We should be posting again shortly, please bear with us....

INFLATION - Finance ministers of the eurozone countries gather today in Brussels with a host of economic matters on their agenda. But there’s one issue dominating concerns: inflation. Cost of living prices have been rising across Europe in recen...

CHRISTMAS BONUS - People who receive pension or disability benefits will receive a tax-free Christmas bonus of £10. The payment will be made before 25 December, and paid directly to customers’ bank or building society. Letters will be sent out b...

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY - It is the anniversary of the birth of the Association of Pension & Benefits Claimants CIC (the ABC) as we call ourselves for short. We launched on 5th November 2014 and we have kept going ever since. We have some 3,790 article...

TV LICENCE - What can I watch without a TV Licence? Without a licence, you can legally watch: Netflix. YouTube. Amazon Prime. DVDs/Blurays. Non-BBC catch-up including ITV Player, Channel 4 on-demand, as long as it's NOT live Free TV licences can...

THE NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE - Ahead of the autumn budget this Wednesday, the Treasury has announced that the National Living Wage is set to rise from £8.91 per hour to £9.50 for those aged 23 and over.   Workers aged 21-22 will see an in...

PENSIONS - State Pension payments are forecast to rise this week with the DWP set to confirm how much this week. Rt the moment the full basic State Pension of £137.60 would get an additional £5.50 per week, which amounts to a payment of £572.40 per m...

CLAIMENT HUMILLIATION -SNP MSP, Neil Gray, has branded the latest revelation of the UK’s Government DWP’s treatment of universal credit claimants “utterly despicable” as the Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) exposed evidence that people are being for...