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Appeals Service - Independent public body responsible for appeals on decisions on Social Security, Child Support, Vaccine Damage, Tax Credit and Compensation Recovery. Site provides information about the Service, its regional offices and its procedures.
Social Exclusion Unit - Includes Government press releases, reports and consultation documents on social exclusion in the UK.
Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority - OPRA is the statutory regulator for occupational pension schemes in the UK. Site provides contact information and details of relevant publications.
Department for Work and Pensions - Government department responsible for welfare and employment issues. Formerly the Department of Social Security (DSS) and Department for Education and Employment (DfEE).
Social Security Advisory Committee - The main UK advisory body on social security matters. Provides information on the roles and responsibilities of the SSAC, plus details of members, consultations and publications.
Child Support Agency - Government website containing information about the UK Child Support Agency, charter, FAQ, a questionnaire and also a link to the Government green paper for CSA reform.
Analytical Services Division - Provides analytical skills to help solve policy or operational problems. Includes a number of on-line research reports.
Veterans Agency - The UK body responsible for administration of, and policy relating to, war pensions and veterans' issues.
Relationship Breakdown: A Guide for Social Landlords - The UK Government's advice and guidance for social landlords on handling the housing consequences of relationship breakdowns.
Working Together to Safeguard Children - Government guidance on inter-agency co-operation in relation to transforming children's services.
The Pension Service - Provides information and resources on pensions for individuals, employers and providers.
Over 50 - UK Government portal to information and services for the over 50s. Volunteering, pensions, working, health and wellbeing, news and information, links to government agencies.
Pensioners' guide - Government website to help pensioners find the latest information relevant to their state pension. Provides guides for England and Wales (in English and Welsh) and a guide for Scotland is forthcoming.
Rough Sleeping - Information from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister on the UK Government's approach to the problem of homelessness and rough sleeping.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Independent non-governmental research charity looking at social policy in Britain, including welfare and poverty issues.
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Skinner One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles Welfare Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed Welfare "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Welfare Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Welfare "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa Welfare A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. Welfare "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Welfare Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh Welfare Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Welfare "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice Welfare Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Welfare "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Welfare The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Welfare I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio Welfare University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Welfare The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that Welfare "Plato was a bore." 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