Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
New DWP payment rates from this week for PIP, Universal Credit and other benefits
dailyrecord.co.ukState Pension and most benefits delivered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) including Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) will increase by 3.1 per from today.
The payment rate changes were signed off in February in the House of Commons and will be applied to payments from Monday, April 11 2022, for people receiving State Pension or benefits through the DWP in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland - where corresponding provisions will be made there.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation recently called on the UK Government to increase all DWP-delivered benefits by 7% in line with the ever-increasing rate of inflation, which now stands at 6.2%, and warned that sticking to the 3.1% uptake would result in 400,000 families who rely on benefits being plunged into poverty.
While payment rates are rising, so too are energy bills which are set to increase by nearly £700 per year for millions of households from this month while National Insurance Contributions are also rising, which means take-home pay for every worker in the UK will change.
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