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General News of Tuesday, 15 May 2018 Source: classfmonline.com Former President John Dramani Mahama The Ministry of Education has said former President John Mahama got it all wrong when he said the Akufo - Addo government has paid only 30 per cent of the funds meant for the first - year implementation of the Free Senior High School programme.

At a meeting with former Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) who served during the National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, Mr Mahama said the government had paid only 30 per cent of the funds meant for the Free SHS programme.

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Too often, this means their only recourse is to source funds from alternative or private lenders who charge rates well in excess of 20 per cent.

That means the US central bank is halfway to its target, given the current fed funds rate of 1.75 per cent and the 150 basis points in hikes the Fed has implemented since December 2016.

Thanks to the same figures which mean improving macroeconomic fundamentals, we have been able to transfer some GH cents 3.1 billion of Tier 2 pension funds into the custodial accounts of the pension schemes of the labour unions, funds that have been outstanding for six years, and about which the labour unions had been loudly complaining.

He continued, «Thanks to the same figures which mean improving macroeconomic fundamentals, we have been able to transfer some GH cents 3.1 billion of Tier 2 pension funds into the custodial accounts of the pension schemes of the labour unions, funds that have been outstanding for six years, and about which the labour unions had been loudly complaining.»

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

The federal minister for the environment, Greg Hunt, says a series of conditions on the development, including funding for programmes to support the health of the reef, will mean that the water quality will actually improve by 150 per cent.

The effect of the planned changes is expected to grow direct funding to universities for teaching, learning and research from $ 10.7 billion in 2017 by 8 per cent to $ 11.5 billion in 2021, and taxpayer - backed student loans paid to universities from $ 6.4 billion to $ 7.4 billion, meaning a total funding increase of 11 per cent, if universities maintained their current enrolment patterns.

However, the Institute for Fiscal Studies brought us back to reality when it announced the next day that the additional funding meant a real terms cut of nearly five per cent until 2019.

Rising costs and flat funding mean schools are facing real - terms cut in their funding of about 8 per cent over the next few years.

Sundorph said the DfE was included in this calculation: «This means 96 per cent of admin staff will become automated at DfE and its arm's - length bodies — the Education Funding Agency, Standards and Testing Agency, and The National College for Teaching and Leadership.»

The current MFG means schools can't lose more than 1.5 per cent of their funding per pupil, per year.

Greening said the government will also retain the current minimum funding guarantee for schools — meaning no school can face a «funding reduction of more than 1.5 per cent per pupil next year in what it received through the local authority funding formula».

Obviously, it will have to be 20 per cent (ignoring fees) and so there is no way that a comparison between the average return earned by the active managers with the index return will make investors aware that markets have become efficient.1 In other words, the warning light to signal that markets have become inefficient will never light up and so there is no reason to expect that investors will come to a realisation that the flow of investment funds to index investing has gone too far — meaning that the envisaged constraint on the flow of funds to index investing is unlikely to eventuate.»

This means the IRA funds transferred to an RRSP may be subjected to double taxation: once at 30 per cent (or 40 per cent if under 59.5) in the year of transfer and again when the RRSP (or, ultimately, RRIF) funds are withdrawn and taxed on his Canadian return.

Royal LePage underwrites the administrative costs, which means 100 per cent of the funds raised go to the more than 200 Canadian shelters the foundation supports, says Shanan Spencer - Brown, who joined the shelter foundation as executive director in mid-January 2011.