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August 20, 2014 12:25 PM
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DWP Denies Urging Staff To Vote 'No' In Scottish Independence Referendum

DWP Denies Urging Staff To Vote 'No' In Scottish Independence Referendum | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
The Department for Work and Pensions has denied urging civil servants to vote 'No' in the Scottish Independence referendum in September.
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August 20, 2014 11:35 AM
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Spending Watchdog Accuses DWP Of Hiding Failings Of Troubled Universal Credit Scheme

Spending Watchdog Accuses DWP Of Hiding Failings Of Troubled Universal Credit Scheme | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Parliament's spending watchdog has accused the DWP of hiding the failings of Iain Duncan Smith's troubled Universal Credit scheme.
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August 20, 2014 11:27 AM
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Fewer elderly people at work nowadays compared with Victorian times

Fewer elderly people at work nowadays compared with Victorian times | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Research shows only 10% of over 65s carry on working in 2014 compared with more than 50% in the 1890s
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August 20, 2014 11:24 AM
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Older worker hotspots revealed

Older worker hotspots revealed | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
According the figures released by the Department for Work and Pensions, Watford has the highest rate of employment among older workers.
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August 20, 2014 11:21 AM
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Joan McAlpine: Privatisation is killing the NHS in England and only a Yes vote can secure free health care in Scotland

Joan McAlpine: Privatisation is killing the NHS in England and only a Yes vote can secure free health care in Scotland | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
JOAN says the destruction of the NHS down south will inevitably undermine health care in Scotland unless we take charge of it ourselves.
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August 20, 2014 11:18 AM
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Britain’s youth risk being locked out of any recovery

Britain’s youth risk being locked out of any recovery | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Tom Clark: From housing to jobs and benefits, the under-35s have little to hope for in the aftermath of this economic slump
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August 20, 2014 11:15 AM
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Bedroom tax victim claims ghost haunts spare room » Housing » 24dash.com

Bedroom tax victim claims ghost haunts spare room » Housing » 24dash.com | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
A social housing tenant has claimed that she should be excused from paying the government's controversial bedroom tax - because a ghost is stalking her Liverpool home.
Lorna McDonald has been penalised by the under-occupancy policy, seeing £14...
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August 20, 2014 11:11 AM
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Self-employed workers have taken the biggest hit of all in great pay squeeze

Self-employed workers have taken the biggest hit of all in great pay squeeze | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Commenting on a new analysis of self-employment published today (Wednesday) by the Office for National Statistics, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:
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August 19, 2014 6:18 PM
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Lowering The Benefit Cap 'Won't Save A Penny', Says Property Expert

Lowering The Benefit Cap 'Won't Save A Penny', Says Property Expert | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
A property expert has slammed proposals from a think tank to reduce the £26,000 a year benefit cap outside of London and the South-East.
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August 19, 2014 6:16 PM
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David Cameron Rebuked Over Jobs Claim

David Cameron Rebuked Over Jobs Claim | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Neither the original fear that migrants were taking British jobs nor the reversal of this trend were supported by official data
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June 29, 2014 6:08 PM
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Westminster Abbey Occupied In Protest Against Cuts To Disability Care Funding

Westminster Abbey Occupied In Protest Against Cuts To Disability Care Funding | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Labour MP John McDonnell has supported the demonstration, saying that government actions have left people 'desperate'
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June 27, 2014 11:31 AM
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Food Bank Users Choose Alcohol And Drugs Over Feeding Their Own Children, Says Tory Councillor

Food Bank Users Choose Alcohol And Drugs Over Feeding Their Own Children, Says Tory Councillor | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
To the dismay and anger of Labour councillors present at a Coventry Council debate on food banks, Cllr Julia Lepoidevin couldn’t wait to get stuck in and demonise local residents who turn to...
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June 25, 2014 7:47 PM
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New Universal Credit ‘Fiasco’ Could Cost £750 Million, Say Labour

New Universal Credit ‘Fiasco’ Could Cost £750 Million, Say Labour | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
The Government has admitted Universal Credit could cost taxpayers an additional £750 million after failing to decide how free school meals will work alongside the crisis-hit programme.
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August 20, 2014 12:24 PM
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Enquiry launched after ambulance manager pictured apparently ASLEEP on the job

Enquiry launched after ambulance manager pictured apparently ASLEEP on the job | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after a manager in an ambulance control room was apparently pictured sleeping on the job.
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August 20, 2014 11:28 AM
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Bills soar FOUR times faster than wages as total pay falls for first time since 2009

Bills soar FOUR times faster than wages as total pay falls for first time since 2009 | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Inflation slowed from 1.9% in June to 1.6% last month, using the Government’s preferred way of measuring it
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August 20, 2014 11:26 AM
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Scottish independence: Government department denies using memo to tell staff to vote 'no' in referendum

Scottish independence: Government department denies using memo to tell staff to vote 'no' in referendum | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has denied telling staff to vote “no” in the Scottish independence referendum in a memo urging them to “support the Government”.
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August 20, 2014 11:22 AM
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£100m of public money used to treat patients outside NHS

£100m of public money used to treat patients outside NHS | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
FIGURES released to the Daily Record show that since the First Minister's pledge, NHS spending on private care has soared - leading to huge profits for care firms such as Bupa.
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August 20, 2014 11:19 AM
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Poverty in Scotland has more than doubled in 30 years

Poverty in Scotland has more than doubled in 30 years | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
AND close to one million people - almost a fifth of the population - are in inadequate housing, while more than 250,000 adults and children are not properly fed.
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August 20, 2014 11:16 AM
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DWP defends staff referendum advice

DWP defends staff referendum advice | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it

A Whitehall department has denied advising its staff to vote "No" in the Scottish independence referendum.

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August 20, 2014 11:12 AM
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UNISON | Name and shame councils if care providers ignore the minimum wage | Home

UNISON | Name and shame councils if care providers ignore the minimum wage | Home | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it

UNISON has called on the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to publicly name and shame councils who commission social care employers that flout National Minimum Wage laws. 

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August 20, 2014 11:10 AM
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NEWS FROM LABOUR: "Mental health services are getting worse not better" - Berger

NEWS FROM LABOUR: "Mental health services are getting worse not better" - Berger | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Luciana Berger MP, Shadow public health minister, in response to Norman Lamb’s comments on mental health services, said:
"Norman Lamb is not a commentator; he has been the minister responsible for...
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August 19, 2014 6:17 PM
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£1.2 Billion End Of Life Care Contract 'A Privatisation Too Far', Say Unison

£1.2 Billion End Of Life Care Contract 'A Privatisation Too Far', Say Unison | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Unison is calling on patients and residents to 'fight-back' against the planned privatisation of Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent cancer and end of life care services.
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June 30, 2014 1:47 PM
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Tory Tax Merger Could See The End Of National Insurance

Tory Tax Merger Could See The End Of National Insurance | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
A future Conservative government would merge National Insurance with Income Tax, in a move designed to simplify the UK's taxation system
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June 28, 2014 8:31 PM
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NHS Pathologists Banned From Work For Exercising Legal Right To Strike, Say Unite

NHS Pathologists Banned From Work For Exercising Legal Right To Strike, Say Unite | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Unite has branded Northampton General Hospital’s banning of 78 biomedical scientists from the workplace a ‘disgraceful abuse of power’ and has vowed to do what it takes to settle the dispute.
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June 27, 2014 11:30 AM
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Tory Minister Admits Link Between Welfare Cuts And Food Banks

Tory Minister Admits Link Between Welfare Cuts And Food Banks | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Conservative Party Minister David Mundell MP admitted there is a link between Westminster welfare cuts and the increase in food bank use across Scotland.
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