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My wife has been refused indefinite leave to remain in the UK (ILR), despite qualifying, because of misleading advice and intransigent bureaucracy on the part of the Home Office. When she checked if she was eligible on the government website, she was told she could apply as the partner of a British citizen. The website …

The government needs to learn lessons from its furlough scheme and make earnings insurance a permanent feature of a radically reformed welfare system, a thinktank has said. The Resolution Foundation, which focuses on the needs of middle- and low-income households, said emergency action during the pandemic had protected living standards but also highlighted pre-crisis flaws …

If natural justice had its proper bearing, hundreds of thousands of people would not tonight be sleeping in high-rise homes that are clad in materials that could potentially go up in flames, a prospect for which they not only have to pay fire safety costs and higher insurance bills, but also face the reality that …

The family of the late Samsung Electronics chair Lee Kun-hee have said they will pay more than 12tn won (£7.8bn) in inheritance tax and donate his collection of more than 23,000 artworks – including pieces by Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and one of Claude Monet’s water lilies paintings – to South Korean …

The problem with challenging the practice of “fire and rehire” is that properly advised employers do not “rip up an employee’s contract with impunity”, as your editorial suggests (27 April). This would be illegal. Instead, employers go through a bogus consultation process and, in the event of not securing agreement, terminate the contracts on due …