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Citizens Advice Bureaux across the UK are to benefit from a £39 million deal with the government. They will offer advice and provide a support service to claimants of the new, all in one benefit, Universal Credit. Citizens Advice Scotland, CAS, have been accused of abandoning its principles by agreeing to work with the Department ...

Wage growth has risen at its  fastest rate since the financial crisis. The Office of National Statistic’s, ONS revealed today, that their data shows, in the three months to the end of August employees received a bumper pay rise. Average weekly earnings saw a year-on-year rise of 3.1% excluding bonuses. 2.7% including bonuses said the ...

Amid growing concerns that Britain may crash out of Europe with a no-deal Brexit, a group of economists, the EY item Club, (EY) warned that the UK economy is heading for its worst year for nearly 10 years. The EY Item Club are the only non-government forecasting group of economists who use the Treasury modelling ...

Mortgage lending by Banks has seen a cautious approach in the third quarter of this year. Risk taking by the Banks, when it comes to mortgage lending, may be even less over the next three months. Demand from borrowers, however, has not diminished. Demand for remortgaging increased “significantly,” according to the survey of credit conditions ...

Educating young people in the skills needed to manage their money and to budget effectively in the future may seem obvious to some. After all, “Education is what remains when one has forgotten what one has learned at school” said Albert Einstein. And yet little is being done to address the situation through early education. ...

The way we work needs a new radical approach. This was the conclusion earlier this year from think tank, The Resolution Foundation.  More than half of people on zero hours contracts were aged between 16 and 34, The Foundation’s report revealed. Young people have been ‘scarred’ by years of insecure, low paid work and needed ...