Sentences with phrase «cut back benefit»

A financial security plan, like a defined benefit plan, or Social Security has to cut back benefit payments.

Now, with Labour scrambling around trying to find a way to win back voters, you are just as likely to hear someone on the left talking about cutting back benefits or the need to limit immigration as you are a Conservative or right - wing paper.

Not exact matches

Many Tim Hortons franchises cut back on employee perks and benefits when Ontario raised minimum wages by 21 percent to C $ 14.

The government is cutting benefits, but you can fight back.

Waste Management CEO Jim Fish disputes the narrative that major companies are only using corporate tax cut benefits to buy back stock.

1) Reward the survivors with cold, hard cash: With many employers forced to cut back on benefits and freeze wages during the recession, as things slowly pick up, it is time to reward the survivors.

Speaking at the CERAWeek by IHS Markit conference in Houston, Cornyn and Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski warned the taxes could hold back investments in oil and gas infrastructure, alienate allies and water down the benefits of tax cuts and deregulation.

Another main line of Genworth's business, long - term care insurance, is a risky but growing market, and Genworth pleased investors in 2013 by raising rates and cutting back on some benefits as customers live longer and become more costly to insure.

Health care, perquisites, and other benefits are being cut back, employee training programs shelved, and support for creativity and innovation diminished, while the gap in compensation between rank - and - file workers and executives has widened dramatically.

The company said it has cut back its capital expenditures forecast «by focusing on the critical near - term needs that benefit us primarily in the next couple of years,» the company said in its shareholder letter.

«We raised our deductible from $ 250 to $ 1,000 and cut back on maternity benefits,» he says, «which kept our most recent increase down to 20 %.»

Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

One big reason: Employers cut back on contributions to their plans to the lowest amount in six years, according to an analysis by benefits consultant Towers Watson, thanks,...

«I'm skeptical the projected cuts can be obtained through attrition and cutting back on paper clips,» said Kevin Milligan, economist at the University of British Columbia, who projects cutbacks to civil servant wages, benefits or pensions along possible layoffs.

The conservative group Americans for Tax Reform, which backed the tax cut, has compiled a list of more than 100 companies that have announced some kind of financial benefit for employees resulting from the tax cut.

Minor changes like these have major benefits: they dramatically cut back on fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

So the 13 million increase in the uninsured and accompanying health care spending cuts helped to finance a plan that cuts corporate taxes by $ 1.3 trillion, partially rolls back the estate tax paid by wealthy families to the tune of $ 93 billon, and directs most of its benefits to the richest Americans with its individual tax cuts.

Look at the practical benefits, childcare problems are solved, there could always be a mother in the home, we might be able to cut back on the divorce rate.

Most of it would come from rolling back corporate subsidies and the George W. Bush tax cuts, taxing employer - based health benefits that exceed the average plan, and imposing a hefty (60 cents per gallon) gasoline tax.

Even if you aren't gluten - sensitive, or cutting back on the grains, coconut flour pancakes have so many benefits!

Whether you're a vegetarian or just looking to cut back on calories, eating meat - free meals can have real weight - loss benefits.

Because of the well - documented benefits of interscholastic sports for both boys and girls, it is critical that everything possible be done to avoid cutting back or eliminating school sports.

You probably thought about cutting back your fitness hours, but truth is, it's not a solution that will benefit anyone.

That has been the rule for bereavement benefits to date and it is not being changed now, even as the benefit is being updated and cut back.

I'd scrap»em and give it back in a mix of tax cuts and reinforcing existing benefits that work without a crazy malfunctioning bureaucracy.

«However in order to achieve this they must cut out the waste and crazy non jobs, start sharing back office services and join forces to procure to benefit from economies of scale.

Mr Cameron referred back directly to the row over the child benefit cut, saying it was «fair» that high earners take on some of the burden.

it is like this whole attitude around austerity — you are on benefits, you are expected to be cutting back, you are expected to be living on nothing... and if you don't pay your rent, we're going to look at every penny you spend and see whether you're intentionally homeless...»

Cuts to benefits and public services have a direct effect on sex workers and serve to prevent them leaving the industry, or going back into it.

The governor's plans to cope with federal cuts comes as State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli issued a report finding New Yorkers gave over $ 40 billion more in taxes in 2016 to Washington than they got back in benefits.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo hinted in his State of the State speech on January 3 that he might back tax hikes on people he says will benefit the most from the recent federal tax overhaul, which includes cuts to corporations and some wealthy taxpayers.

The contract for the workers at the Hilton Albany expired back in April, and now, they say the owners want to reduce pay increases and cut benefits including pensions.

-- deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions like asthma, heart disease and cancer, — cut back your health benefits, — throw some kids off their parents» insurance, — and roll back prescription coverage for seniors.

But now he could vote to let insurance corporations cut back your health benefits.

Gov. Cuomo hinted in his State of the State speech on January 3 that he might back tax hikes on people he says will benefit the most from the recent federal tax overhaul, which includes cuts to corporations and some wealthy taxpayers.

He also disagrees with the government over whether disability benefits should be cut to pay for the national care service backed by the prime minister.

Mr Duncan Smith, who quit the Government in March in protest at cuts to disability benefits, also hit back at David Cameron for claiming the issue of Turkish EU membership was not on the ballot paper.

The reason why people are backing cuts to benefits, is because they do not think the welfare state represents that vision.

In reality a key would involve the cutting back of middle class benefits but much of the right - wing press fiercely defends those benefits.

Nadhim Zahawi, a Conservative, asks Williamson what he thinks of Labour opposing child benefit being cut for the rich but backing higher taxes for the rich.

The governor's plans to cope with federal cuts comes as State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has issued a report finding New Yorkers gave over $ 40 billion more in taxes in 2016 to Washington than they got back in benefits.

Iain Duncan Smith has, for some time, wanted to base the extra # 10billion cuts needed from his budget on changing universal benefits so that the middle classes and higher earners do not receive unjustified handouts (child benefit for higher earners, for example), rather than balance his budget on the backs of the poor and vulnerable.

Governor Cuomo hinted in his State of the State speech that he might back tax hikes on people he says will benefit the most from the recent federal tax overhaul, which includes cuts to corporations and some wealthy taxpayers.

David Cameron's pledges in the election, No. 10 feels, rule out the full - scale assault on the principle of universality that the Lib Dems argued for, such as means testing benefits like child benefit to cut them back for better off families.

Mr Clegg is unlikely to back controversial cuts such as removing housing benefit from under - 25s.

Fire and police unions have been hammering the mayor for his refusal to back a reversal to a 2009 state law that cut the disability retirement benefits for firefighters or police officers who are wounded in the line of duty if they were hired after July 2009.

Ed Balls told the party conference in Manchester about plans including cutting the winter fuel allowance for wealthier pensioners, keeping the the benefit cap, child benefit rising by 1 %, bringing back a 50p tax rate, and introducing a mansion tax.

Since November 2008 the number of working people in receipt of housing benefit has increased by 235,000, mainly as hours have been cut back and more families have had to rely on only one wage packet.

«We found that a very brief, simple exercise in mindfulness can help drinkers cut back, and the benefits can be seen quite quickly,» said the study's lead author, Dr Sunjeev Kamboj (UCL Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit).

The United Nations Environment Program estimates that cutting back on methane and soot emissions alone could prevent 0.7 degree Celsius of additional warming by 2040 — and those cooling benefits could come faster than comparable cuts in CO2.