Sentences with phrase «controversial changes to the benefits»

The statistics emerged ahead of a raft of controversial changes to the benefits system which will come into force this week - including the «bedroom tax» which sees council and social housing tenants facing reductions to their benefits if they have empty rooms in their homes.

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More recently, the Welfare Reform Act, which received Royal Assent in March 2012, attracted widespread criticism during its troubled passage through Parliament, with the changes relating to disability benefits being particularly controversial.

The Labour leader gave a speech in the city centre, and promised to reverse controversial changes to housing benefits and extend childcare.

The change to disability benefits has been controversial, even before the operations ran into trouble.

There are some parts that are controversial and, as with any large piece of legislation, some provision that benefit this interest or that have been worked in (the changes to drug approval at the FDA will likely benefit Big Pharma).

Such changes are controversial because the idea of measuring a teacher's contributions to student learning contests the predominant labor management model in education: salaries and benefits that increase with experience, and layoffs based on reverse order of seniority.

Likely just a coincidence, but the controversial FutureGen project seemingly awarded to Illinois during Presidential primary season makes it looks like Obama helped deliver the dough to his Illinois constituents, regardless of his vote changing, to the possible benefit of Wisconsin's Governor Doyle.