Sentences with phrase «age old policy»

After four years of calm, the age old policy dilemmas that India faces in times of high oil prices are back to haunt the nation and its government.

Not exact matches

Genworth Financial (GNW), which provides life and long - term care insurance, screwed up a while back when it began selling policies to cover medical expenses in old age: It did not charge nearly enough for them.

Jon Kasselman of the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy explored the ramifications of enlarging the CPP, including its potential (in concert with the Guaranteed Income Supplement) to eliminate taxpayer - funded Old Age Security, and the possibility of making the enhanced portion of CPP coverage voluntary.

«The [U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission] enforces the ADEA and considers the ADEA to prohibit an employer from using neutral employment policies and practices that have a disproportionately negative impact on applicants or employees age 40 or older, if the policies or practices at issue are not based on a reasonable factor other than age,» writes Elliot at VirginiaWorkplaceLaw.com.

There's an age - old axiom in Washington that goes, «Personnel is policy.»

«The easternmost provinces tend to be older and aging more rapidly than western provinces,» explains Colin Busby, senior policy analyst at the C. D. Howe Institute in Toronto.

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Most homeowners or renters policies will not cover a student living in a dorm who is older than 26 years of age.

Tinder is changing its policy to only allow users aged 18 years old and above to use the service.

First, the spending decisions of the older age cohorts are less likely to be easily stimulated by monetary policy.

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According to the Economic Policy Institute, 39 percent of workers nearing retirement age (56 to 61 years old) have no retirement account savings whatsoever.

«These findings raise serious questions about the policy needs for future pensionless cohorts, such as the adequacy of benefits from Old Age Security, the Guaranteed Income Supplement, and the Quebec and Canada pension plans,» the report states.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott joined a growing list of Republican lawmakers Friday to endorse raising the minimum age for purchasing rifles to 21 years old, marking his first major break from the policy priorities of the National Rifle Association.

Still, they have important implications for public policy as it pertains to underfunded old - age entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, as well as the tax treatment of retirement plans and savings accounts.

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Similarly, if the government reduces taxes (like the GST) and then argues (incorrectly) that the old age security program is not sustainable we can examine their analysis and policy logic.

The problems that contribute to unrealistic images of aging must be addressed at both the personal and the systemic levels; healthy old age and its proper representation in society are a matter of public policy as well as of individual behavior.

Let's base 21st Century social policy on discredited Bronze Age Palastinian mythology involving a 6,000 year old Universe and a talking snake.

I Liked Pires during his Arsenal playing days, which seems like many moons ago and to think that he is still in training with the club, one can only wonder that here's another player that Wenger let go of too early (age policy, only giving 1 year extension to 29 - 30 year olds) More proof that Wenger is tooooo slow in changing his stubborn ways.

This is according to the Daily Telegraph who also state that the deal is a 4 year contract, which I am personally quite surprised at given Vardy's age and the club's usual policy of not offering long term deals to those approaching 30 or over 30 years old.

The 27 - year - old's switch represented a break from chairman Daniel Levy's transfer policy of targeting players aged 25 or younger and not paying inflated fees.

Hopefully though we can slightly adjust age our policy and provide some care in the community to our players when they get older... I admire the fact that ManU have kept Giggs and Scholes, it ¿ s something to be applauded

Facebook has a strict age policy that requires all users to be at least 13 years old).

The new togetherness policy lends credence to the age - old bed - sharing philosophy that is practiced around the world but is heavily criticized in the U.S.. On one hand, co-sleeping promotes nurturing and closeness and can give working parents extra bonding time.

Further, unmarried women (whether single, widowed or divorced) face significantly higher poverty rates in middle and old age, according to a study by the Institute for Women's Policy Research that AARP published last year.

Furthermore, policies that wittingly or unwittingly entrench mothers as primary carers and fathers as earners have consequences further down the line: when today's happy housewife becomes tomorrow's low skilled lone mum and pension - poor retiree; and today's confident breadwinner becomes tomorrow's angry divorced dad, with a tangential relationship with his children and substantially reduced care from them as he approaches old age.

To avoid a similar fiasco, the SPD has insisted this time on a number of social policies in the 2013 coalition treaty, such as the introduction of a minimum wage, more flexibility in the pension system, an increase in old - age pensions and benefits for the chronically ill as well as an increase in social expenditure on matters like education, health and family benefits.

The case for our membership of the EU is not a case for ending national sovereignty but for delivering an age - old, historic objective of our foreign policy.»

It is the Government's policies that are hitting growth and costing jobs, not the actions our members may have to take to defend themselves against poverty in old age.

Breast Cancer Care is publishing recommendations on how to improve outcomes and experiences for older women with breast cancer in a new policy briefing, supported by Age UK.

After a years - long push to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18 years old in New York, a new policy could finally come as soon as April 1, when Andrew Cuomo's Raise the Age bill might be passed as part of New York state's budgage of criminal responsibility to 18 years old in New York, a new policy could finally come as soon as April 1, when Andrew Cuomo's Raise the Age bill might be passed as part of New York state's budgAge bill might be passed as part of New York state's budget.

David Sinclair, head of policy for Help the Aged, said: «Safety on our roads is of paramount importance - around 40 per cent of pedestrian fatalities are older people and older people are far more likely to be severely injured or killed in accidents.

Founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York City, SAGE is a national organization that offers supportive services and consumer resources to LGBT older adults and their caregivers, advocates for public policy changes that address the needs of LGBT older people, and provides training for aging providers and LGBT organizations through its National Resource Center on LGBT Aaging providers and LGBT organizations through its National Resource Center on LGBT AgingAging.

On Tuesday 12th September, 2017 at the West Africa Senior High School, the President, H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo launched the free senior high school education policy ushering the nation into an era where the age old creed of «education as a right not a privilege» assumes its true meaning.

In recent weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio's policies have run up against an age - old forces of inertia and resistance in the city, especially one that springs forth in policy debates on everything from housing to bike lanes to school desegregation and even closing down Rikers Island jails.

It may seem trivial to fight about whose budget resolution gets more attention, but in New York, the spending plans approved in late March often contain non-related policy items, like whether to treat 16 and 17 year - olds as juveniles, not adults, in the state prison system, known as «raise the age», and whether to allow ride hailing services like Uber and Lyft to operate outside of New York City.

Examples include changing policies to encourage older adults to remain part of the workforce for longer (e.g., removing tax disincentives to work past retirement age), emphasising low - cost disease prevention and early detection rather than treatment (eg, reducing salt intake and increasing uptake of vaccines), making better use of technology (eg, mobile clinics for rural populations), and training health - care staff in the management of multiple chronic conditions.

In July, in an update of a 1998 policy statement, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended dropping the age at which at - risk children should be given statins — a class of cholesterol - lowering medication — from 10 years old to 8 years.

NIH already has a 9 - year - old policy that essentially gives extra points to grant proposals from early - career investigators that has helped stabilize the fraction of NIH grantees under age 45.

Changes in pension and employment policies are making it increasingly necessary for older people in the UK to work beyond the age of 65.

The Florida State University Faculty Luncheon Series for Fall 2017 features the following distinguished speakers who will reflect on their scholarly research and creative activities: Tuesday, Sept. 12 Anne Barrett, professor of sociology and director of The Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy, will discuss «Doing Our Bit: Older Feminists» Activism in London.»

Last month, in a step tantamount to heresy in the public health world, scientists at the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota released a report saying that influenza vaccinations provide only modest protection for healthy young and middle - age adults, and little if any protection for those 65 and older, who are most likely to succumb to the illness or its complications.

As a result of the one - child Policy, many families began to selectively abort female children in order to try to have boys, who are traditionally preferred due to the cultural expectation that men will help support the family and take care of their parents in old age.

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Rather than discouraging work at older ages, states could enact policies that encourage workers to continue working for longer.

Other popular education programs have put the age - old policy of banning state aid to religious K - 12 schools on increasingly shaky ground.

But longer life expectancies could also open the door to policies that encourage work at older ages.

But even if we don't all live to 100, the key takeaway for policymakers is that we still need to update our policies not just for the present workforce, but also the future one, and do so in a way that anticipates and rewards work at older ages.

When the insured individual gets older, say age 75, if the objective of protection is no longer an issue, the insured has the option to surrender his policy and tap into the cash value as a source of income.