Sentences with phrase «cut social benefits»

According to one senior official who attended the weekend gathering, the National Front were impressed that Cameron had «won the right to cut social benefits for migrants, as well as the right to have guarantees against a strong euro».

There is some truth in this argument, although it remains a mystery why it is better to cut social benefits rather than military spending at a time when the United States spend more money on defense than the next 10 military powers — such as China, Russia, France, England, Germany and Japan — combined.

During the next two months they will have to persuade the American public it is necessary cut social benefits for the poor and elderly.

Not exact matches

Possible reforms could include raising the full retirement age for Social Security to 70 for workers who are currently under age 40; cutting benefits; increasing payroll taxes on workers; increasing Medicare premiums; and making Social Security benefits more progressive — meaning cutting benefits for high - income workers, while preserving payouts for low - income earners.

These projections assume Congress will not act to increase payroll taxes, raise the retirement age or cut benefits to improve the financial outlook of Social Security.

The benefits to a successful social media brand presence are significant, even if the route to get there isn't clear - cut.

Bush is pro-immigration reform and he says he'd make cuts to Medicare and Social Security benefits, raising the retirement age to 70.

For Republicans, the timing provides crucial leverage to force Democrats and the president to cut spending in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, expensive benefit programs that Democrats have long protected, despite escalating costs.

Early in his term, he pushed through a $ 1.6 billion tax cut for businesses, offset by $ 1.4 billion in tax increases on individuals — including taxing pensions and Social Security benefits.

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.

People working through these platforms are often put in a precarious position, with no health insurance or social benefits, and are often at the mercy of the platforms who dictate the rules of their work and take a large cut of their income.

Moreover, we understand that you support entitlement reform, but do you believe that it is politically realistic for the Republicans to actually achieve your goal when it would entail asking seniors to sacrifice by cutting Social Security and Medicare shortly after Republicans argued that we could afford to add over a $ 1 trillion to the deficit for tax cuts that largely benefit corporations and high - income households?

In response to these strains, state and local governments have cut infrastructure investment, slashed support for higher education, cut spending on K — 12 education, cut spending on social benefits other than Medicaid, reduced administrative staff and reduced most other areas of the budget.

The lower exchange rate, favourable domestic financial conditions and the boost to household incomes from income tax cuts and increases in social benefit payments should continue to support growth in the period ahead.

In October, the Latvian people voted in a coalition headed by the incumbent prime minister Valdis Dombrovskis, whose government had savaged social benefits, cut pay and inflated unemployment in 2009.

Professor Jon May from Ifan said: «Even as the Government plans # 12 billion in cuts to social security benefits by 2019/20, some of our largest companies continue to avoid paying their fair share in tax.

The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.

This legal action along with the drastic cuts to social benefits puts prostitutes, particularly mothers, in a vulnerable position.

Put all the social security taxes in Wall Street accounts and let Goldman manage your money — your benefits will be cut by 40 %

The only alternatives are to either raise other taxes, cut Social Security benefits to current and soon - to - be beneficiaries or find cuts elsewhere in the budget.

The price of what small sums will be given to Ukraine from the EU or, more likely the IMF, will be systemic reform — energy price rises, the ending of state subsidies for industries, and the cutting of state social benefits (among others), all of which will be politically catastrophic for whatever government introduces them.

A combination of soaring rents, cuts to benefits, and a shortage of social housing has created a crisis in affordable housing in the capital.

But Democrats at that time were accusing Republicans of wanting to cut Social Security benefits.

The government has revealed in answer to a parliamentary question that 200,000 children will be pushed into relative income poverty by its bill to cut social security benefits and tax credits in real terms.

This brief uses data from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement5 to examine the importance of public pensions to black retirement security, and why the twin threats to public pensions — cuts to state pension benefits and the decline in public employment over the past two decades — particularly threaten the retirement security of African American workers.

These cuts force tenants in social housing to downsize to a smaller property or risk eviction by forcing them into arrears if their housing benefit no longer covers the rent.

But by taking on Murdoch, halting the rush into Syria and taking on energy companies, Miliband wants to show that strength means standing up vested interests, not cutting social security benefits.

Since the Spending Review of 2010 The Centre for Welfare Reform has tried to understand the overall impact of the cuts, changes to the benefit system and other social policy impacts on disabled people and people in poverty.

If implemented, from 2013, 670,000 households in the social sector will have their housing benefit cut by an average of # 13 per week - # 670 penalty a year - if they are deemed to have a spare bedroom according to DWP's proposed size criteria.

«Republican Bob Turner admits he's never meet a corporate tax loophole he didn't like and would to drastically cut the Medicare and Social Security benefits more than 2 million seniors in the district depend on,» DCCC spokeswoman Jennifer Crider said.

In order to understand which groups lose under the programmes and which are likely to be exempted from intrusive conditions and why, we might need to delve into domestic data more deeply and lay out the changes to material conditions of different groups and cuts in social benefits.

New York's working families have been mobilizing around the Lame Duck session and will continue calling on Congress to end tax cuts for the richest 2 % and to say no to cuts to benefits for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

As we showed immediately after the Budget, the Chancellor's claim that the spending changes he announced were «progressive» has always been contentious — significantly the Treasury's modelling did not include a third of social security changes, including cuts to Housing Benefit and Disability Living Allowance, and only changes up until 2012/13 were considered.

Thirdly, the appointment of Alistair Darling to the Department of Social Security is clearly designed to re-launch the attacks on the welfare state which stalled after the rebellion on lone parent benefit cuts.

Each time I move round Ekiti, I see the pains on the faces of the 25,000 elderly persons who benefited from our social security scheme; 600 people who were employed into the peace corps; 10,000 volunteers who took N10, 000 per month, among others but have been cut off from these safety nets by Fayose.

Those living in social housing who are deemed to have a spare bedroom have been asked to downsize or they will face a cut in their benefits.

«Ann Marie Buerkle voted to end Medicare, cut Social Security benefits and raise taxes by $ 1,000 on the average New York working family.

Later, as a District Representative for Congresswoman Nita Lowey, David helped residents with Medicare, Social Security, and other federal benefits by cutting through government red tape.

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.

That's why I have asked our social policy review to look into whether we should cut the benefits of those parents whose children constantly play truant.

Earlier today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D - CA) said she would support President Obama's proposed Social Security benefit cuts — even arguing that using the «chained CPI» would not be a benefit cutA after previously telling President Obama «that House Democrats will not vote for any trims to future benefits in Medicare or Social Security, even a tweak to the cost - of - living index,» A according to her hometown paper.

Welfare benefits reduced to 2006 levels, social welfare bill cut by equivalent to 1.5 % of public expenditure

If we're going to cut one, cut them ALL — business subsidies, welfare to people who keep having kids when they're already on the dole, medicare, social security, unemployment benefits... the works!

Over the next four years many disabled people will see a reduction in the overall value of their benefits, as well as specific reductions in the levels of housing benefit; unemployment benefit; the loss of disability living allowance (DLA), which contributes towards the - often significant - extra costs of living as a disabled person; as well as reduced access to social care services as a consequence of local government funding cuts.

Benefit cuts and a shortage of social housing were identified as major factors behind the surge in homelessness in the UK.

Impact of Social Security Privatization on the Disabled «Cuts in Disability Benefits Seen in Social Security Plan»

«Florida Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio was pressed on Sunday on statements he made earlier that he believed Social Security benefits should be cut for Americans now under the age of 55.

But if there are to be social security cuts, then the Lib Dems would be much happier if they were made to universal benefits such as the Winter Fuel Allowance.

One hundred fifty - two thousand people who receive Social Security benefits would have had their benefits cut if the organization I co-founded, Social Security Works, did not exist.

A disabled woman and her partner have written to Work Secretary Iain Duncan Smith begging him to rethink plans to cut benefits for social housing tenants who are deemed to have a spare room.