4 d. ago New update for people in Scotland making a claim for devolved payments this week

People who need to upload documents or supporting information for a claim may be affected.

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1 week ago Travel document warning as millions 'aren't applying' putting them at risk

New research has found the number of people applying for the key travel document has dropped for the second year in a row - but holidaymakers could be caught out

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3 w. ago 2 US Border Patrol officers are charged with taking bribes to wave in people without documents

Two U.S. border inspectors have been charged with taking thousands of dollars in bribes to wave people into the country without showing documents

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3 w. ago People on PIP can request crucial document to assess eligibility under new rules

The DWP have announced a number of changes to the PIP system, including changes to the eligibility criteria

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3 w. ago People on PIP can request crucial document from DWP before new benefit changes next year

Scots on ADP may also be affected by welfare reforms and can take steps now to protect payments.

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4 w. ago Twitter: Breaking the Bird review – how all the hate speech flooded in

This film shows how a ‘hallucinogenically optimistic’ vision descended into the hellscape we know today. Young, confident men really should not rule the internet It turns out that Mike Judge’s supposed sitcom Silicon Valley was a documentary after all. My bad, as the people young and in touch enough with the world to have known this all along may still say.Twitter: Breaking the Bird is a 75-minute CNN film chronicling the rise, fall and possibly end of the social media site that was launched by a group of eager young things in 2006 amid a widespread belief – at least in the Valley – in the power of the internet to remake the world in radically better ways. This, a co-founder or two has come to consider since, may have been a “hallucinogenically optimistic” view. Well, we were all young once. Although that feels – and in no small measure because of Twitter – like a very long time ago. Continue reading...

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