The EU's poorest citizens will continue to get food, basic material assistance and social welfare from an EU Fund worth over €3.5bn.

The British Government will face a protest today as it launches a new benefit as part of a “fundamental cultural shift” of the welfare system.

A cap on the amount of benefits people can receive in the UK begins today in a policy that is being trialled in parts of London.

A new study has found that an average of 25 jobseekers chasing every vacancy in parts of London.

Unemployment in the UK will peak at 2.7 million next year, lower than previously predicted, although the jobs outlook would get worse if economic growth is weaker than expected, a new report said today.

NEARLY a fifth of people living in Britain today are expected to celebrate their 100th birthday, the Government has predicted.

Wildcard 'X Factor' contestant Wagner Carrilho is understood to be having his incapacity benefit claim reassessed after his flamboyant performances on the hit talent show.

David Cameron sought to dampen fears over the coalition’s drastic austerity measures today as the Tories gathered for their first conference since regaining power.

David Cameron sought to dampen fears over the UK coalition government’s drastic austerity measures tonight as the Tories gathered for their first conference since regaining power.

IRISHMAN John Fingleton is the best paid civil servant in Britain, new figures released yesterday revealed.

Staff at computer giant Hewlett Packard are to stage a fresh wave of strikes in a row over pay and jobs, it was announced today.

Investors in ailing Carter & Carter will be left with nothing after the training firm’s fall into administration, the company said today.

Prosecutors in England today dropped the case against a former stablehand and nanny to glamour model Jordan who was accused of falsely claiming benefits for nearly two years.

Troubled training company Carter & Carter gave investors some cheer today after boosting its business with a move into the North.

A DUBLIN-born woman yesterday escaped a jail term for claiming €16,500 in welfare benefits in Britain under the name of a sister who was killed in a road accident.

A DUBLIN woman is facing up to 10 years in jail in England after claiming €16,500 in welfare benefits by using her dead sister’s identity.

The British government’s biggest department today pledged to improve services to the unemployed, pensioners and those claiming benefits under an £850m (€1.25bn) contract with telecoms giant BT to improve communications.

Hopes of averting a strike involving 1.5 million council workers and civil servants in Britain rest on meetings to be held tomorrow.

Hundreds of thousands of jobcentre and benefit office workers, museum staff, driving test examiners and other civil servants are to be balloted in Britain on a series of strikes in a worsening dispute over pensions which threatens widespread unrest in the run-up to the general election, it was announced today.

BRITISH plans to ban workers from new EU member states from claiming benefits for two years could be illegal, the European Commission warned yesterday.

Unemployed immigrants from the new European Union states will be barred from claiming most welfare payments in the UK for at least two years, it was confirmed today.

A BRITISH civil servant who claimed he was a victim of sexual discrimination because he was ordered to wear a collar and tie to work has won his employment tribunal case.

A MAN who was told he must wear a shirt and tie at work is a victim of sexual discrimination, an employment tribunal was told yesterday.