This week UNISON Launched a new report: A New Housing Benefit Deal for Young People calling for a more joined up response to prevent young people becoming structurally impoverished, whether they are in or out of work, due to high rents in poor quality housing in the private rented sector. For local authorities and the…
UNISON has recently been looking in more detail at a new computer system – Real Time Information (RTI) – that will be used to calculate how much Universal Credit low paid workers are entitled to. The results are worrying: there is too little information or guidance for all the parties – employers, employees, DWP, HMRC…
EVENT: Allison Roche is an Assistant National Officer at UNISON, dealing with social care workforce issues. Allison will be speaking at the TUC seminar on funding social care on Monday 28 November at 12.30, which will be shown live on this website. Here she sets out the serious issues for the future of social care.…