Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Today the Children’s Future Food Inquiry Ambassador Dame Emma Thompson joins young ‘Food Ambassadors’ at Westminster to deliver a new report which calls for an independent Children’s Food Watchdog to lead the charge on tackling children’s food insecu...

The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Regina Doherty TD, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Charlie Flanagan TD and the Minister of State with responsibility for Equality, Immigration and Integration, David Stanton TD, today...

The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection will host a Training and Upskilling event in its Intreo Centre at Hanover Street, Cork city on Tuesday 30 April from 1.00pm to 4.00pm. The main focus of the event is to support for jobseekers...

Social Welfare Training has brought this to our attention.  Mixed Age Couples- Pension Credit Claims Cut Off Date From 15/5/2019, mixed-age couples will be excluded from entitlement to Pension Credit. At present, and until that date, mixed aged...

Food waste is a global issue with a wide variety of environmental, social and economic impacts.  New research today unveils that nearly three quarters of UK households are regularly throwing out food each week, with a staggering 40 per cent of t...

The latest research by leading flatshare platform, ideal flatmate, has looked at where is home to the least number of homes to support the local population across each London borough.   Using data from the London Datastore, ideal flatmate l...

Social Security Combined Trust Funds Gain One Year Says Board of Trustees   The Social Security Board of Trustees today released its annual report on the long-term financial status of the Social Security Trust Funds. The combined asset reserves...

Stephen Smith, 64 failed a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) work capability assessment in 2017, which meant that his employment support allowance (ESA) payments were stopped. He was told to sign on to receive a £67 a week jobseeker’s allowance,...

The level of wealth inequality in Australia is vastly underestimated by the public despite being a top priority for many, as new polling finds nearly three-quarters of Australians are unaware of the disparity in wealth distribution. Research commissi...

In the week ending April 13, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 192,000, a decrease of 5,000 from the previous week's revised level. This is the lowest level for initial claims since September 6, 1969 when it was 182,000. T...