9 d. ago DWP confirms start date for Eligibility Verification and ‘monitoring’ bank accounts to tackle benefit fraud

The Eligibility Verification Measure will not give DWP direct access to bank accounts or enable investigators to see how people on benefits spend their money.

Economics

2 w. ago Natwest confirms it is 'investigating an update' to app as customer locked out of accounts

The bank reassured customers that the outage 'is not security related'

Economics

2 w. ago Mayors’ alleged drunken country club brawl under investigation as both offer entirely differing accounts of events

The mayor of Rome, New York, Jeffrey Lanigan denies that he attacked his allegedly ‘intoxicated’ predecessor Jim Brown during a country club function

Economics

2 w. ago Badenoch challenges Starmer at PMQs over winter fuel payment U

Tory leader says PM should apologise to pensioners and asks how U-turn will be fundedReeves says her changes to the fiscal rules last year will make more investment possible.The decisions that we made in October mean that, for the first time, the Treasury actually takes account of the benefits and not just the costs of investment, and together, the fiscal rules mean that, unlike our predecessors, we will not be balancing the books by cutting investment.And that is why we can increase investment by over £113bn more than the last government plans, meaning public investment will be at its highest sustained level since the 1970s.I have had to say no to things that I want to do too, but that is not because of my fiscal rules. It is the result of 14 years of Conservative maltreatment of our public services, our public realm and of our economy. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago Olympics or OnlyFans: Team GB hopeful being 'forced to choose' after being suspended

Kurts Adams Rozentals has been suspended from competing in canoeing events by Paddle UK amid an investigation which he suspects is linked to his OnlyFans account

Sport

3 w. ago Should ordinary US retirement accounts be investing in private assets?

Some worry that PE funds could become a dumping ground

Economics