The Sealand Gazette

Zero-hours contracts with unpaid travel time means up to 220,000 care workers get less than the minimum wage

Parts of the area have seen a surge in people unable to put a roof over their heads, according to new government figures.

Thinktank says employees have sacrificed pay to keep their jobs during the 'longest and deepest' slump in a century

A DISABLED man has been ordered to pay an extra £50-per-month from his benefits due to now living alone in a two-bedroom flat.

Uprooted and vulnerable: The true cost of homelessness in Britain.

Bill to house the homeless in Westminster rises by 63.5% as thousands of people moved to temporary accommodation

TUC-commissioned report says rail selloff has brought little private investment in new technology but dearest fares in Europe

The average middle-income family in Britain is likely to be nearly £1,800 a year worse-off by 2015, according to the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS).

More than 100 services across the NHS are run by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin – the people who bring you planes, trains and telly

The government’s recent review of major projects revealed that the flagship Universal Credit welfare programme will cost nearly six times more than previously billed.

A LUXURY package holiday for dogs was unveiled today by consumer website VeryFirstTo.com, which will cost dog owners a mammoth £47,000.

Proposal is found in Whitehall-commissioned study examining how coalition could privatise entire stock of student loans

Nothing demolishes the sham which is the welfare-to-work sector more than the soaring long term unemployment figures. The number of people out of work for over two years has risen almost every mont...

A father withdraws his children from a Devon primary school after his 10-year-old son is refused lunch over a £1.75 debt.

A businessman who donated £1.65m to the Labour Party is also a major trustee of a charity which has funded the Taxpayers' Alliance to the tune of over million pounds since 2008.

Households with earnings of more than £135 a week are likely to lose out under the PM's plans to replace most benefits with Universal Credit.

A council which refused emergency housing support to a homeless 62-year old pensioner instead offered to buy her a tent. Is this what the Coalition means by cashless welfare?

Vodafone paid no UK corporation tax for the second year in a row, it was revealed today in its annual report.

Anilsa Ramos, who featured in the Observer's campaign for decent pay, is a stark reminder of the housing crisis

Meat should not be a dinner table staple, according to a new report which claims the UK is never far from a food shortage.

A new council-run foodbank in Hounslow has rules stating they will not give food to people with chaotic lifestyles or those who have had benefits sanctioned.

Dr Nick Edwards, a consultant at a major A&E unit, reveals the devastating knock-on effect the out-of-hours care crisis is having on emergency patients — and we tell the heartbreaking stories that prove it’s having fatal consequences.

Poor children are now four times more likely to be unhealthy than richer children after the "health gap" increased seven fold in a decade, according to a new study.