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£100,000 dole cheat faces jail

06.11.09
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Benefits investigator helped wife pocket £31,000 in handouts

03.11.09
Benefits fraud investigator has been jailed for 27 months after helping his wife pocket £31,000 in state handouts... more

Two families given housing benefits worth £366,000

05.10.09
Two London families have received housing benefit worth £366,000, figures reveal... more

Developers can make fortune as council sells off 'cut-price' properties

04.09.09
Cash-strapped council is auctioning 'cut-price' houses to developers who can then make tens of thousands of pounds' profit... more

Brown faces backlash over plan to cut housing benefit

28.08.09
Gordon Brown faces a backbench rebellion over plans to slash the benefits of poor families, it emerged... more

Patient gets benefits back

26.08.09
Woman with an inoperable brain tumour whose benefits were cut after a new government test found her "fit to work" has had them reinstated... more

Don’t panic if you miss A-level targets

19.08.09
Record demand for university places but plenty of options for school-leavers who fail to find the course of their choice... more

'Six million' to claim benefits

18.08.09
Number of working-age adults claiming benefits is set to hit six million this month, think-tank predicts... more

Brain tumour victim has her benefits cut

21.07.09
Woman with an inoperable brain tumour has had her disability benefits cut after a new government test found her 'fit to work'... more

Humiliation for Darling as audit finds a hole in Treasury’s bank bailout figures

20.07.09
Alistair Darling embarrassed as Treasury’s accounts were qualified for the first time in its 350-year history... more

Benefits test shows 2.6m are really fit for work

13.07.09
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Ageing workforce may bring end to retirement at 65

13.07.09
Compulsory retirement age could be scrapped under radical plans to allow more people to work beyond 65, the Government announced... more

£2.5bn to cut dole queues as unemployment hits new high

22.04.09
Hundreds of thousands of young people will not be abandoned as a “lost generation” without jobs, Alistair Darling vowed... more

Easter egg hunt at skills centre ‘insults jobless’

06.04.09
Ministers faced ridicule after it emerged that Jobcentre bosses in London have organised a jobseekers’ Easter egg hunt... more

Medical records Bill would 'destroy trust'

03.03.09
Doctors have warned that plans to share confidential medical records with government departments and private companies could damage patient confidentiality... more

Unemployment down by 1% in capital

11.02.09
Economy: The number of unemployed people in London has fallen by 1% between October and December, bucking the national trend, which saw unemployment figures soar across the country... more

Dramatic rise in long-term unemployed

02.02.09
Britain's long-term unemployment is set to soar to more than 300,000 people, Whitehall officials have admitted for the first time... more

Computer firm advised by Taylor

27.01.09
One of the firms which employed Lord Taylor as an adviser was Electronic Data Systems... more

2012 fuels web crime surge

23.01.09
The Olympics has set off an “explosion” in cybercrime, experts warn... more

Jobless total heads for two million

21.01.09
A record number of people are being made redundant and job vacancies are falling as unemployment hurtles towards two million... more

£65bn wiped off value of company pension schemes

31.12.08
Company pensions have taken a massive hit in the recession, with billions of pounds wiped off the value of schemes to support retiring employees... more

Mr Quick and a lack of judgment

22.12.08
Mr Quick was right to withdraw his remarks but it remains worrying that he made them in the first place... more

Mother in £2.6m council house asks for cheaper home

22.12.08
A mother of four who receives more than £90,000 a year from taxpayers to live in Notting Hill offered to move out of her £2.6million home... more

Commuterland bears the brunt of rise in jobless

19.12.08
The impact of soaring unemployment on commuter towns, cities and suburbs in the South-East was revealed... more

Lambeth faces fraud inquiry into £22m housing black hole

16.12.08
Council bosses are facing an investigation over a possible £22million overspend in housing budgets... more

Women lured into sex jobs by Jobcentre advertising

09.12.08
Women say they are being lured into the sex trade through posts advertised in Jobcentres... more

Beckett doubt on how many homeowners will be helped

04.12.08
Fresh doubts were raised today over how many homeowners will be saved from repossession by Labour's new mortgage scheme.... more

Jobless total hits 1.82m as things get tougher for Britain

12.11.08
Unemployment hit an 11-year high of 1.82 million amid fears that the jobless total could near three million by 2010... more

£1.5 million houses for homeless

24.10.08
Millions of pounds of taxpayers' money is being spent housing homeless people in some of the most expensive streets in London... more

Our £1m council house? You just take what you're given

08.10.08
A family living on benefits in a £1.2 million house in west London told how they felt they had won the lottery... more

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