The number of Britons paying the higher rate of income tax will soar from four million to five million by 2026. The higher 40 per cent rate will be frozen at £50,270 from April 2021 until 2025/26.
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The Wisconsin Department of Children and Families is hearing that counties need increased funding to address rising caseloads and costs for counties related to parental drug abuse. Danielle Kaeding/WPR
Democratic Gov.
Tony Evers signed an executive order Wednesday officially calling the state Legislature into special session to take up the task of modernizing Wisconsin’s unemployment system. It’s set to take place Jan. 19 starting at noon, according to the order.
Evers announced plans for the special session in his third State of the State address Tuesday night, saying administrations going back more than a decade knew the unemployment system couldn’t handle an economic crisis but “they never took the time to fix it.”
Second wave of older worker job losses forecast for December after tighter Covid restrictions
16 December 2020 • 6:00am
More than 106,000 over-50s fell into unemployment in the autumn as redundancies rocketed for older workers and forced tens of thousands into early retirement and poverty.
Unemployment figures for those aged between 50 and 64 rose to 378,000 after another 99,000 were pushed out of work between from August and the end of October, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Nearly five times more people between 50 and 64 were made redundant between September and October than during the three previous months. The jobs crisis has meant many over-50s have found themselves out of work during the critical years leading up to their retirement.
David Bruce: AHN donor information exposed in ransomware attack
Northwestern Pennsylvanians are among the nearly 300,000 people who received letters recently from Allegheny Health Network, Saint Vincent Hospital s parent organization, informing them that a ransomware attack exposed personal information.
Earlier this year, attackers accessed information stored by Blackbaud, a vendor who maintains the AHN Office of Development s fundraising records and donor database. The exposed data did not include Social Security numbers or credit card or bank account information, AHN said in the letter.
But it did involve names, dates of birth, addresses, business addresses, phone numbers and email addresses.
It also included limited medical information, such as the dates a person received medical trearment at AHN, the medical provider s name and the office or hospital location.