Sentences with phrase «about pensioners»
I hear all the time about pensioners struggling to help their children put down deposits on first homes, after a multi-decade property boom that has seen houses in some areas increase in value one hundredfold in just 40 years, lifting even modest family homes way out of the reach of those on ordinary incomes.
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If the OAS clawback threshold was reduced to $ 51,100 today as the Fraser report is suggesting, the pensioner who was earning $ 71,000 would see his OAS benefit reduced to about $ 300 a month, according to Fred Vettese, chief actuary at Morneau Shepell.
Maybe, but most progress on cancer has been on childhood cancers whereas for pensioners what matters is life expectancy at about age 65.
Blakemore shows how Thomas Paine's false accusation that Burke was a secret pensioner of the crown in 1790 reflects Paine's own anxieties about having received a secret pension during the American Revolution.
A stubborn egoistic pensioner who would try to school all fans about how Leicester did it on a shoe string budget.
However, in light of Chelsea's recent struggles in the Premier League — the Pensioners sit 16th on 11 points after 12 matches, having only won three games — has prompted intense speculation about Mourinho's future.
No one revels in our losing no one and to suggest it is just stupid beyond belief... It's been 12 f ****** years without a sniff at the title thats getting close to the worst run in the modern era... I.e. Post 1966... The point is wenger refuses to address longstanding gaps and weaknesses in squad by suggesting the spirit is good or cohesion is right or youngsters about to come good or his bargain basement purchases from ligue I are hidden gems... it's become tiring and time he should join the pensioner ranks and leave this job to someone with a bit of ambition..
serious medication not low - grade smack with street name of «cohesion» bought from dodgy looking french pensioner drooling his pernoud and reminisching about l`age d`or might be what you need
Not only does this cause safety issues for men and women walking from a game through dark streets they are not fully aware of, but what about the disabled, pensioners and little kids now facing an even longer trek.
Analysts estimate that about four per cent of current EU employees and eight per cent of its pensioners are Brits.
And it's going to give pensioners more peace of mind, because they will have more clarity about what they're going to get — and they can save for the future with greater confidence.
An estimated 600,000 pensioners with annual incomes above about # 45,000, 5 % of those under 80 and 2 % over-80s, would lose the allowance as part of an overriding plan to save the Treasury around # 105 million.
The NAO finds the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has made «real and substantial progress» since its last report in 2002, noting that # 6 billion was given out in pension credits to 2.7 million pensioner households last year - a take up rate of about 69 per cent.
Baroness Altmann, Tory former pensions minister, warned that «only about one in 10 pensioners continues working past state pension age and are not all well - off.
«SERAP has been fully briefed by Edo pensioners both at local government and state levels about their plight and continuing denial of their human rights to dignity, equality and non-discrimination by your government.»
In the letter dated 8 September 2017 and signed by SERAP deputy director Timothy Adewale, the organization expressed «concern about the treatment of the situation of Edo pensioners from a «humanitarian» and «charity» perspective.
I asked again about funding for higher education, and suggested that guaranteeing free bus passes would be a vote - winner with pensioners.
Police Officers and pensioners deserve to have a high degree of certainty about pension provisions.
«While we're in no way complacent about people's income in retirement, the single group of people who have benefited most in terms of their standard of living has been pensioners,» she says.
12:27 - Tory backbencher Bob Stewart sounds thoroughly fed up about the plight of pensioners who are subsisting on # 6,000 a year, not # 26,000 a year.
The EU probably felt like it had to react to the accusation that Eurozone countries were paying for privileged Greek pensioners to retire at younger ages than everyone else, but these proposals have a lot more to do with convincing international speculators about the future viability of the Euro than a serious plan for pensions policy.
In 1947, concerns about the level of duty saw the introduction of «tobacco tokens» for pensioners struggling to pay for their habits, but this system only lasted for 11 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.
(Press Release) Concerned about the plight of pensioners who retired under the Contributory Pension Scheme without being paid, the Federal Government has cleared the...
YouGov also asked a series of questions about public sector pensions — 74 % of people thought that public sector pensioners got a better deal than those who worked in the private sector and 60 % of those thought they did not deserve this (predictably there was a huge difference between public and private sector workers on this question — 55 % of public sector workers thought that, yes, they did deserve better pensions than the private sector).
«Despite conflicting demands for available cash, President Muhammadu Buhari has always expressed concern about the plight of workers and pensioners.
And he criticised Mr Brown for becoming out of touch with the concerns of voters, as epitomised by the former Prime Minister's disastrous election encounter with Rochdale pensioner Gillian Duffy, whom he branded a «bigoted woman» for raising legitimate concerns about immigration.
About 4,061 police pensioners, who retired under the PTAD arrangement are yet to receive their pensions.
David Cameron launches pensioner pledge to rebut Labour smears about Tory policy as he says Brown should be ashamed of his record on the elderly
Speaking at an event to launch the pledge, the Tory leader was scathing about the Government's record of supporting pensioners:
I withdrew my complaints about the over-use of «working people» in the light of research showing that these are the most effective messages: pensioners have working children, and people without jobs want the opportunity to work.
Ed Balls told the party conference in Manchester about plans including cutting the winter fuel allowance for wealthier pensioners, keeping the the benefit cap, child benefit rising by 1 %, bringing back a 50p tax rate, and introducing a mansion tax.
Brigadier Adesope further disclosed that the board spends N9.2 billion monthly for 92,000 military pensioners, adding that he did not know how the Federal government came about payment of pensions from Service Wide Votes instead of the budget.
If an asteroid strike was about to obliterate Earth, the Daily Mail would report it as «Attack on the middle class» and the Telegraph, with its older readership, as «Attack on pensioners».
Life is all about balance, so I paired my pensioner garb with a low cut swimsuit (as in a suit made for swimming, but which I think works suitably well as a bodysuit for everyday - wear) and very cool Off - White sunglasses.
Russian Robber Got a Surprise The local police received several reports about robberies from old female pensioners who were attacked in the streets by a male.
To collect money transfers, they use low - income females, pensioners and single mothers, paying them a small fee (about $ 50) for each transfer they receive.
We spoke to Sarah (pictured right during a meeting with the Chelsea Pensioners last month) to find out more about her preparation for her leading role, her friendship with Bel Powley and what it was like working with Emily Watson again.
Expanding his original adaptation of Deborah Moggach's novel about financially challenged British pensioners who have «outsourced» their remaining years, Ol Parker's segmented screenplay juggles so many diverse characters, contrived storylines and picturesque glimpses into colorful Indian culture that sometimes it's hard to keep track.
Freeman brings more to the role of molly - coddled pensioner than his piles — and clearly enjoys himself, even dancing in a club — while Kline manages to swan about in a shiny suit like A Fish Called Wanda was only yesterday.
Right now you're hearing about how companies have gone bankrupt and pensioners are having their pensions cut.
With so much governance and regulatory safety built into the Canadian Robo Advisory landscape, pensioners and retirees should have no inhibitions about using them as investment vehicles.
If the OAS clawback threshold was reduced to $ 51,100 today as the Fraser report is suggesting, the pensioner who was earning $ 71,000 would see his OAS benefit reduced to about $ 300 a month, according to Fred Vettese, chief actuary at Morneau Shepell.
The Mirror (London, England); December 9, 2005; Reade, Brian; 700 + words... would sum up to perfection what the Turner Prize was all about... A photographic... Ellen MacArthur felt pulling into Falmouth - until I floated into ear - shot... could see there was more to the Turner Prize than a load of pensioners» testicles...
And, while Antony Green thinks it unlikely that pensioners are ineligible, the report he quotes says «However, the meaning of the phrase is not absolutely clear and there are divergent views about its effect.»
We're talking about the kind of people who, if they weren't in the pay of Big Eco, would probably be trading prisoners» body parts in China or scamming pensioners with emails from Nigeria or training baby dolphins to act as cetacean torpedoes for the Russian navy.
In November 2015, the Ombudsman dismissed a complaint by a pensioner about the actions of the scheme administrator and trustees in seeking to recover overpaid pension and failing to put one of his additional voluntary contribution (AVC) funds into payment on time.
Mr Sharp of Welling, Kent, would look in on the pensioner whenever he was in the area for a chat about sport and other shared interests.
On the first issue, there has been much criticism about the lack of protection for pensioners, most recently in response to the Indalex decision.
First there has been an uproar about the priority afforded to the DIP lender in relation to the pensioners, with the view being that the pensioners should have been afforded a higher priority as opposed to being superseded by large commercial lenders.