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‘Disastrous for Britain’: how MPs’ pension fund left the UK stock market

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Friday, June 14, 2024 10:51 am Part Facebook Share on Facebook X Share on Twitter LinkedIn Share on LinkedIn WhatsApp Share on WhatsApp E-mail Share via email At its peak in 2017, the fund held £130m of UK shares. However, by the end of last year this had fallen by 92 percent to just £10 … Read more

DWP quietly starts early rollout of universal credit to some ESA claimants, without telling MPs

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Jo Churchill, head and shoulders, smiling, in a pink jacket, in front of an old building

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has started telling 500 disabled people on unemployment benefits to move to universal credit, just days after a Conservative minister assured MPs that no claimant would face such a move until September. DWP previously announced that it would begin rolling out universal credit to the remaining Employment and … Read more