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Latest figures show 6,850 businesses have been created in Scotland under the UK Government's New Enterprise Allowance scheme.
First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government
Nearly 70,000 new businesses set up across the UK by go-getting benefit claimants.
Today, 10 more Jobcentres start offering Universal Credit in Scotland, Wales, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk, Hertfordshire and the Black Country.
Minister for Pensions Baroness Altmann's maiden speech to the House of Lords on proposed reforms to state and private pension systems.
The biggest employment programme Britain has ever seen has helped push long-term unemployment to its lowest level in more than 5 years.
Real wages have grown faster than at any point in the last 7 years, official figures out today show.
Today Universal Credit is available to more people in 6 more Jobcentres across the country and will make sure work always pays.
This article follows the High Court ruling on the case of 2 disabled people who faced delays waiting for their PIP claims to be processed.
Mr Richard Exell and Mr Paul Faupel have been reappointed to IIAC for a third 3-year term, from 8 June 2015.
All Glasgow Jobcentres now offer Universal Credit, with the new benefit that makes work always pay, available to all new single claimants.
Universal Credit is now available to more people at 15 more Jobcentres across the country and will make sure work always pays.
David Cameron will announce plans to double free childcare for working parents, with some families set to benefit as early as next year.
Universal Credit arrives in Banff, Fraserburgh, Peterhead, Falkirk, Grangemouth, Stirling and Alloa. Learn about how it can benefit you.
The benefit cap continues to provide an incentive to work, with thousands of people who had their benefits capped moving into work.
Iain Duncan Smith was welcomed back as the Secretary of State, alongside Lord Freud who continues as Minister for Welfare Reform.
The number of benefit sanctions has gone down by a third over the past year.
UK employment has reached an all-time high of 73.5% – and over the last year employment growth has outstripped every other major economy.
The national roll out of Universal Credit continues today (11 May 2015) with the benefit now available to new single claimants in Richmond, Kirkwall, Lerwick and Stornoway.
The Minister for Welfare Reform, Lord Freud, announced today (26 March 2015) that Paul Gray has been reappointed as Chair of SSAC.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
National Grid has pledged to become a partner of the government’s Disability Confident campaign.
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