Sentences with phrase «cap on benefit increases»

• Labour has said that working people will suffer as a result of Osborne's decision to impose a 1 % cap on benefit increases.

The bill imposes a 1 % cap on benefit increases (ie, an effective cut) until 2016 and it is a testament to Osborne's ingenuity because it is a piece of legislation that is both apparently popular and opposed by the Labour party.

Q: Do you accept the Resolution Foundation analysis that says 60 % of the people affected by the cap on benefit increases are people in work.

The frontbench were applauded for opposing the 1 % cap on benefit increases — a mere 50p a week for an unemployed under - 25 — and rejected splits between «strivers» and «skivers».

Not exact matches

But the structure of Labour's plans for rail renationalisation and caps on fare increases stand to benefit relatively well - off voters in the south east — a group not generally seen as core to Labour's welfare efforts.

As POLITICO New York has previously reported, the amendments increase the benefit offered under the governor's paid family leave proposal to the state's lowest paid workers, but keep in place a cap on benefits of just over $ 500 per week.

With New York's arbitration law set to expire on June 30, Governor Andrew Cuomo's 2013 - 14 Executive Budget included statutory language imposing 2 percent cap on compensation cost increases resulting from arbitration, defining «compensation» to include health benefits while excluding steps and longevity increments.

He opposes tax increases and his key economic victory so far — a cap on local property tax increases — has been met with skepticism, necessitating Cuomo to launch a campaign touting its benefits.

He was elected in 2010 as a «new Democrat» who married centrist economic policies — a cap on property tax increases, business tax cuts, a reduction in pension benefits for new public employees — with liberal social policies like strict gun control and support for same - sex marriage.

But Avella believes his plan to have the state continue to pick up the extra Medicaid costs only if the city imposes a cap on increases to its property tax and assessments would benefit the city and state.

Beals also called for increasing Social Security benefits by ending the wealth loophole that he said puts an unjustified cap on Social Security taxes paid by people earning more than $ 185,000 per year.

The challenge for people who don't want to take that decision [capping benefit increases at 1 %], which as I say is consistent with an approach we've already taken on a cross-party towards public sector pay, is where would you find that # 5bn?

• The welfare benefits uprating bill, which will impose a 1 % cap on working - age benefit increases until 2016, has easily passed its first Commons hurdle.

With the benefit cap meaning that housing benefit will be capped at a point where for many who rely on it will have to move away, which means areas with relative affluence with sites of former counci estates, which are now being snapped up by yuppies or young professionals renting them will increase in an area — less likely to vote Labour than those who were on receipt of housing benefit.

The federal and provincial governments are looking at a possible increase in the $ 55,000 cap on annual maximum pensionable earnings, which would result in both higher premiums and increased pension benefits.

Changes will likely be made to the system by either raising taxes (such as by lifting the cap on income subject to Social Security tax), reducing benefits for high - income individuals, increasing the retirement age, or doing something else that will allow Social Security to be fully funded.

In addition, schedule loss costs have remained flat for twenty - five years, with the exception of four years in which benefits were increased for middle - and high - wage workers in exchange caps on permanent partial disability payments, which saved employers a billion dollars.

Mr. MacLean succeeded in having the court use all of the companies pre-tax profits for the SSAG calculation based on BCCA law from the cases of Klukas and Teja, defeating the husband's spousal support claim that double dipping applied to BC spousal support and a lower BC spousal and BC child support payment should thus be paid, blocking any $ 350,000 cap argument where BC spousal support is not increased on high salaries above $ 350,000 per year and finally in having the child support portion of the order made retroactive so a large lump sum payment was received for the children's benefit.

Some insurance companies have maximum increase caps, but the monthly disability benefit you are paid will never be less than the benefit amount listed on your policy.

It included raising the cap on income subject to the Social Security tax to $ 195,000 by 2020, gradually increasing the retirement age for full benefits to 69 by 2070 and creating retirement security plans for private - sector workers.

Key takeaways: 1) The U.S. continues as an attractive investment destination for commercial real estate investors; 2) Commercial fundamentals remain on an upward trend, boosted by solid employment gains; 3) While investors have taken a step back over the past year, leading to declining sales volume in large cap markets, small cap markets benefited from increased visibility and capital inflow, as growing local economies and higher investment yields provide diversification to investors.

«As more consumers remain in their homes rather than move in this economy, remodelers benefited from a gradual increase in home improvement activity, taking us to a five - year high,» said NAHB Remodelers Chairman Bob Peterson, CGR, CAPS, CGP, a remodeler from Ft. Collins, Colo. «2011 ended on a strong note for the remodeling industry.»