Sentences with phrase «national pensioners»

«As long as there is the right to use cash in Sweden, we think people should have the option to use it and be able to put money in the bank,» says Ola Nilsson, a spokesperson for the Swedish National Pensioners» Organisation, which is lobbying the government on behalf of its 350,000 members.

But the Swedish National Pensioners» Organisation argues that Swedes who can't or won't accept the cashless trend can end up feeling even more excluded than they might elsewhere.

First, the lawyers of PIAC represent organizations whose membership serves our target constituencies before boards and tribunals where the industries delivering such services are regulated, These organizations include the Canada Without Poverty (formerly NAPO), the Vulnerable Energy Consumers Coalition, the Consumers Association of Canada, the Ontario Council of Senior Citizens Organizations, National Pensioners and Senior Citizens Federation, Option consommateurs, Union de Consommateurs, and Rural Dignity of Canada among others.

OTTAWA, January 25, 2017 — The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), ACORN Canada (ACORN) and National Pensioners Federation (NPF) today reacted negatively to the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) rejection of their review of the CRTC's previous decision to deny creating a fund to ensure all Canadians, including lower - income Canadians, have equal access to broadband and other telecommunications services.

The National Pensioners Association of Ghana is advocating the establishment of a National Health Endowment Fund to cater for the...

Everyone receiving care services at home should get them free, paid for out of general taxation, and not just those with the greatest needs covered by today's announcement, said Dot Gibson, general secretary of the National Pensioners Convention.

4.10 pm Transport Subject: Disabled Access to Transport Witness (es): Sophie Christiansen OBE, Paralympian, British Equestrian Federation, Marije Davidson, Policy and Research Manager, Disability Rights UK and George Fielding, Panel Chair, Whizz Kidz; Niki Glazier, Co-ordinator, Mental Health Action Group, Lucy Hurst - Brown, Chief Executive, Brandon Trust, George McNamara, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Alzheimers Society and Srabani Sen, Chief Executive, Contact - a-Family; Paul Breckell, Chief Executive, Action on Hearing Loss, Peter Rayner, Vice-President, National Pensioners Convention, Tanvi Vyas, Campaigns Officer, Trailblazers and Richard Leaman, Chief Executive, Guide Dogs Location: The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

· Sian Jones, Communication Workers Union press officer: t: 020 8971 7267 m: 07793 314 249 e: [email protected] · Sophie Kummer, Federation of Small Businesses senior press officer: t: 020 7592 8128 m: 07917 628 998 e: [email protected] · Ruth Potts, nef Communications Manager: t: 020 7820 6357 m: 07749 026 203 e: [email protected] · Neil Duncan - Jordan, National Pensioners Convention press officer: m: 07940 357608 e: [email protected] · Ciaran Naidoo, Unite press officer: m: 07768 931 315 e: [email protected]

ENDS Ciaran Naidoo on 07768 931 315 Note to editors; Unite is part of the Post Bank Coalition, along with the Communication Workers Union, New Economics Foundation, Federation of Small Businesses, National Pensioners» Convention and the Countryside Alliance.

In line with the National Pensioners Convention, we support a non-means-tested state pension of # 170 per week.

«Our National Pensioners and Senior Citizens Federation told us that every time they had their lobby in Ottawa, Conservative Cabinet Ministers and Tory Members of Parliament refused to meet with them, whereas in previous governments at least the Minister in charge of seniors would meet with the seniors» delegation.

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), ACORN Canada (ACORN) and National Pensioners Federation (NPF) today reacted negatively to the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) rejection of their review of the CRTC's previous decision to deny creating a fund to ensure all Canadians, including lower - income Canadians, have equal access to broadband and other telecommunications services.

Not exact matches

Moreover, the fully funded contributions are likely to be more volatile and, even if the contribution rates are lower, the claims of the pensioners on national income do not change from one funding method to another.

The Mail asks when the government will get the message and finally abandon what it calls its ludicrous pledge to shovel 0.7 % of national income into this bottomless foreign pit when our own pensioners are denied vital social care.

He told the newspaper that the Conservatives would soon announce proposals to reduce National Insurance contributions, to cut the rate of tax paid on savings and to raise the threshold at which pensioners pay taxes.

If pensioners in work did pay national insurance, it could be used to provide extra funding for the NHS, something the older generations would be more likely to benefit from.

The NPP whose economic team was led by this same Bawumia who doubled as the running mate to Nana Addo introduced the National Pension's Act 766 section 112 (5) of 2008 that rather imposed tax on voluntary pensioners who took their accumulated funds before 10 years.

(Press Release) Concerned about the plight of pensioners who retired under the Contributory Pension Scheme without being paid, the Federal Government has cleared the inherited arrears of accrued pension benefit for the year 2014, 2015 and 2016 by releasing N41.5 billion to the National Pension Commission (PENCOM) for onward payment to the retirees, Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun has disclosed.

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has announced that pensioners, beginning this month, will benefit from an 18 percent increment in their monthly pension.

And when you think of all we as a country invested over that period — in restoring the NHS, rebuilding schools, taking hundreds of thousands of pensioners out of poverty, ditto children — keeping the National Debt below the level they inherited from the Conservatives was a fantastic achievement.

Failing, she devotes her dwindling energy to the Old Age Pensioners singing group, which is rehearsing for a national competition.

State Pensions A scheme is to be introduced to allow current pensioners, and those who reach State Pension age before the introduction of the new single tier pension in April 2016, an option to top up their Additional State Pension record through a new class of voluntary National Insurance contributions, to be known as Class 3A.

For example, Terence Corcoran questions why creditors are entitled to priority status over pensioners and maintains that «the legal and financial professionals who work the lucrative insolvency field in Canada have a list of reasons to put banks and other lenders ahead of employees and pensioners, none of which deserve the reverence and support they've received from Ottawa» («Pensioners victims of inaction in Ottawa», National Post, February 5, 20pensioners and maintains that «the legal and financial professionals who work the lucrative insolvency field in Canada have a list of reasons to put banks and other lenders ahead of employees and pensioners, none of which deserve the reverence and support they've received from Ottawa» («Pensioners victims of inaction in Ottawa», National Post, February 5, 20pensioners, none of which deserve the reverence and support they've received from Ottawa» («Pensioners victims of inaction in Ottawa», National Post, February 5, 20Pensioners victims of inaction in Ottawa», National Post, February 5, 2013, here).