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Simon Collyer, ABC founder appeared today on BBC Essex Radio and he was interviewed about Bus Gates? Not quite ABC business except that fines of any description are incredibly difficult to finance if you are on benefits.  This what the case was...

This evening Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran will use the Adjournment Debate to bring a Bill to parliament that would see the 1824 Vagrancy Act repealed. The Vagrancy Act currently criminalises those that sleep or beg on the streets. Commenting ahead...

Simon Collyer (ABC founder)  is appearing on BBC East News today lunchtime and on Wednesday morning on BBC Essex Radio. The topic: 'Bus Gates'. Councils have been collecting millions in 'Bus Gate' fines yet of the four documents downloadable fro...

Stop and Scrap Universal Credit Haringey Are you in receipt of benefits in Haringey ask organisers? Are you opposed to the introduction of Universal Credit? Do you want to understand what Universal Credit is? Do you advise or support claimants? If so...

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The Department for Work and Pensions’ in-house IT company BPDTS Ltd has begun 2019 with a boardroom shake-up, with two additions to its top table – including a new chair. Mayank Prakash is stepping down from his directorship of the government company...

The Resolution Foundation has produced a new report: Setting the record straight: How record employment has changed the UK. These are the key findings: First, is the employment boom all about migrant labour? No, immigrants have been some of the...

Ministers are being accused of 'failing people at the most vulnerable point in their lives' after it emerges nine disability claimants die each day while waiting for decisions on disability support.   Meanwhile it h...

We were able to send the last of our free welfare posters yesterday showing current rates of welfare benefits to a domestic abuse centre in West Pontmorlais Merthyr Tydfil Mid Glamorgan South Wales. These posters ae produced by Benefits &am...

In a speech in London Friday, Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd will confirmed that the unpopular two-child limit on Universal Credit for kids who are more than 21 months old will be scrapped. She will also confirmed the “managed migration” of c...