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European Commission Adopts New Four-year Strategy to Further Improve the Welfare of Animals in the European Union
The European Commission has adopted a new four-year strategy (2012-2015) that aims to further improve the welfare of animals in the European Union. How People Arrived Here: European Union Strategy for the protection and welfare of animals 2012-2015, The...
Poor Women And Welfare Reform: Working Without a Net
Welfare and Unemployment Insurance, considered important parts of Americans’ safety net during difficult financial times, have provided little to no help for many low-wage earners who have the shortest distance to fall. Poor women in a study by...
SOUTH AFRICA: Welfare Payments – a Panacea for Poverty?
With nearly one in three South Africans expected to receive state assistance in the form of welfare benefits during the 2011/12 financial year, commentators are wondering how the country can afford to keep providing an ever expanding social safety net.
UK Pensions Tax Relief Slashed By 80%
Financial Secretary to the United Kingdom Treasury, Mark Hoban MP, has announced that the annual allowance for tax-privileged pension saving will be reduced from £255,000 to £50,000, and the lifetime allowance will be reduced from £1.8 million to...
Classes Resume At South Africa’s Mmabatho Nursing College
Academic activities at the Mmabatho Nursing College are expected to resume on Monday after being shut down for a month due to students’ failure to return to the classes. How People Arrived Here: mmabatho college of nursing
U.K. Housing Minister Offers More Housing Choice for Tenants
More tenants across England will have a greater say over where they want to live and what housing options are available to them after Housing Minister John Healey announced over half a million pounds extra funding to create more choice based lettings...
Welfare Reform in the U.K. Means Fewer People Left Behind in the Recession
New figures show a test which focuses on what people can do rather than what they can’t is keeping more people seeking work. Thousands of people are now moving towards work rather than being left to claim sickness benefit. The latest figures for...
More Help with Housing Costs for Low Income Working Families
More than 200,000 U.K. working families will gain about £1000 a year, thanks to new rules around Housing and Council Tax Benefits, making them an average of £20 a week better off. From Monday, income from Child Benefit will no longer be taken into account...
