Sentences with phrase «benefits bill»

... supporting small businesses, helping people aspiring to buy their own home, reducing waiting lists, and easing upward pressure on rents and housing benefit bills.

While the coalition wants to cut benefit bills, Labour seems to oppose all the welfare reforms — which are popular with the great majority of voters.

We show our determination to do this fairly, with further savings from bureaucracy, from benefit bills and the better off.

A key concern for the overall cost of the housing benefit bill is the question of who pays for the 80 % of market rate properties.

The petition says: «The Government has its targets set on the disabled, looking to slash the disability benefit bill by reducing Personal Independence Payments drastically for hundreds of people and replacing some with vouchers.

Osborne had a few extra billion to play with due to shares from Lloyds, Northern Rock and Bradford and Bingley, as well as low inflation and reduced benefit bills.

But I'd make a broader point, which is that if you want to have a stronger, sustained recovery, and if you want to get the housing benefit bill down, and if you're trying to help people on to the housing ladder by supporting housing on the demand side, this is absolutely the time when you ought to be doing more to support investment in housing supply — in particular, but not entirely, affordable housing.»

What impact would minimum alcohol pricing have on inflation and the uprating of benefits bills in the future?

The Treasury estimates the cap will shave off just # 110m a year from a total benefits bill of # 159bn.

10:45 - Poll after poll shows the public accept both ideas: that the deficit must be reduced, which will mean cuts to public services, but also that no confidence means no spending, no spending means lay offs, and lay offs mean a higher unemployment benefit bill, among other things.

By making work pay and providing a living wage, five million people would be lifted out of poverty and the ballooning benefit bill would be reduced, says the union.

Departmental spending cuts have been partly offset by a rising benefits bill which now means # 1 in every # 3 of taxpayers» money is spent on benefits.

Few companies are footing the whole benefits bill these days.

Officials expect to cut a quarter off the total housing benefit bill ever year by 2014/15, but MPs said the DWP had failed to take into account the admin costs of the changes or knock - on costs to other services if, for example, homelessness rates increase.

Between 2010 and 2015 the generosity of Housing Benefit was reduced by # 2billion, yet the overall Housing Benefit bill still increased by # 1 billion as a result of rents rising faster than earnings and more people living in the private rented sector claiming housing benefit.

That means landlords rake it in and the housing benefit bill rockets.

«Too often my team and I have been pressured in the immediate run up to a budget or fiscal event to deliver yet more reductions to the working age benefit bill.

But Labour - while agreeing the housing benefit bill needs to be cut - claim it is a cash raid on the poor.

And working with Councilmember Robert Jackson to pass landmark equal benefits bill.

The prime minister insisted the cost of Trident was not prohibitive in a time of austerity, saying it was less than 1.5 % of our annual benefits bill.

Welfare and benefits # 7bn in cuts were announced to Britain's benefits bill including changes to child benefit and Council Tax benefit.

He cosponsored the Flexible Pell Grant for 21st Century Students reflecting his support for the program; furthermore, he cosponsored a tax benefit bill dubbed HELP for Students and Parents Act.

«This policy risks depleting the stock of social housing further and therefore increasing the housing benefit bill in the longer term,» the report warned.

I've spoken to sources in both the Assembly and Senate today, and have been told that an agreement on FMAP is possible, particularly since it appears very clear now after last week's vote by the US Senate on the unemployment benefits bill that the $ 1.7 billion worth of Medicaid funding expected by NYC and the state in this budget cycle won't be coming any time soon.

«Yet again they denounced an eminently sensible and fair means of reducing the ballooning benefits bill and said we were destroying the welfare state.

Because it's only by getting more people into work and creating better paid and more secure jobs, that we'll tackle the drivers of rising benefits bills and ensure the system is sustainable for the long term.

He said the total benefits bill had increased by 60 % between 2003 and 2010, driven in part by a total of # 171 billion on tax credits.

«At the same time some tenants will face higher rents under the affordable homes programme, which will also increase the housing benefit bill, offsetting some of the savings intended by housing benefit changes.»

Doug Marrone failed to challenge a blatantly bad spot that benefited the Bills, but it didn't matter in the long run.

The fact is, for all the tough and divisive rhetoric, the benefits bill it is still rising, as Liam Byrne has exposed — revised up by over # 20 billion since the 2010 spending review — the direct consequence of George Osborne's austerity economics.

But higher inflation and long - term unemployment means the benefits bill is forecast to be billions higher in this Parliament than the Chancellor boasted.

To benefit Bill and Hillary Clinton, the Obamas, and several others within the government at the time.

The public's hostility to the benefits bill is, in large part, due to the commonly - held view (articulated by Field) that it encourages scroungers: in the same poll, more than one in four respondents said they thought at least half of all welfare claimants were «scroungers who lie about their circumstances to obtain higher welfare benefits».

«The number of people signing on is going up, we still have more than a million young people out of work, more women unemployed than since 1987 and a benefits bill that is spiralling by the day.»

Iain Duncan Smith has admitted that he is no longer seeking to cut Britain's benefits bill and is simply «managing» the increase in handouts

As well as making work pay, the Government has to constrain the benefits bill.

The best part of # 50bn is a lot of money and economic growth can only do so much to reduce spending, particularly when employment is already high and political pressure means that cutting the benefits bill further or pensioners» benefits at all is a no - no.

The benefits bill for city workers is expected to go from $ 3.8 billion this year to $ 5.9 billion in 2016.

The move is designed to symbolise Labour's determination to reform welfare, making it more closely linked to what people pay in, as well as cutting the benefits bill.

The report suggests the housing benefit bill will reach # 25.4 bn, with real terms rises expected for the next five years.

The Treasury estimates the new lower benefit cap will save # 100m in 2016/17 and # 310m in 2017/18 - the benefit bill this year is # 220 billion (including pensions).

I agree with Diane Abbott that such a cap would «encourage cuts in benefits, rather than long - term strategies to do things to bring the benefits bill down, like housebuilding, like a rise in the minimum wage».

Redirecting funds from the # 20 billion housing benefit bill could be better spent on long - term housing investment, a think - tank has proposed.

«We have to do something about the growth in the housing benefit bill,» he finishes.

Increased immigration does not cause the taxpayers» benefits bill to go up, fresh research has suggested.

But if you cut spending and raise taxes too far and too fast, and don't have people in work and businesses succeeding, you can not get your deficit down, because your tax take falls and your benefit bill goes up.

László Andor, the commissioner responsible for employment, social affairs and inclusion, attacked the British prime minister for his rhetoric against the impact EU migrants could have on the UK's benefits bill.

That's why we have said we would have a cap on structural social security spending, so that government is alert to upward pressures on the benefits bill, and ensures problems are dealt with to keep the budget within limits.

Labour will be tougher than the Tories when it comes to slashing the benefits bill, Rachel Reeves, the new shadow work and pensions secretary, has insisted in her first interview since winning promotion in Ed Miliband's frontbench reshuffle.