Sentences with phrase «help pensioners»

Juniors had worked on a variety of matters, including «working at an organization to help pensioners be able to access Medicare,» working for Lawyers for the Creative Arts, tackling immigration cases, writing appellate briefs and helping people learn election laws.

Darling said in his budget statement that he would help pensioners, if the RPI index falls below zero the pension will be increased by 2.5 %.

Nick Clegg stands up and takes a far more appropriate stance, by asking what Brown is doing to help pensioners with fuel payments throughout the winter.

Brown says he wants to help pensioners.

The report said a scheme like Help to Buy, which helps younger people get on the housing ladder, could help pensioners at the other end of their lives.

They are alarmed when the state helps pensioners and unemployed, but happy when the state helps failing banks and inefficient car factories.

Helping pensioners by restoring the earnings link.

Not exact matches

The report states that Hazard is valued at # 80 million by the Pensioners, but that the Citizens will be willing to break the bank and bring in a superstar in order to help tempt Pep Guardiola to the Etihad Stadium next summer.

He was signed by the Pensioners for # 15.8 million 12 months ago [BBC Sport], but despite winning the Liga BBVA title with Atletico Madrid and helping Diego Simeone's side to the Champions League final, he was unable to establish himself in the Premier League.

According to Fichajes [via the Daily Star], the Blues have proceeded to discussing Kroos's potential sale with Florentino Perez and Zinedine Zidane, with Guus Hiddink and Roman Abramovich seemingly deciding that the midfield general is the ideal man to help restore the Pensioners to their former glory.

The Pensioners paid an eye - watering # 31m for the AC Milan star, the owner having become convinced that the man who was a legend in Italy and his native Ukraine would help his side to Champions League glory.

Well - off pensioners should face cuts to their winter fuel allowance to help pay for «catastrophic» care costs, a former Liberal Democrat minister has said.

«These figures show in the starkest possible terms that Gordon Brown's flagship policy on pensioner poverty is failing to help many of the most vulnerable older people,» said spokeswoman Anna Pearson.

However, it says the efforts used to improve take - up of the pension credit should now be applied to other benefits targeted at pensioners, and a new target encompassing the help provided for housing and council tax should be introduced.

Help the Aged spokeswoman Anna Pearson said the government's failure to meet its target was «extremely disappointing», but urged it to act immediately on the NAO's call for a wider approach to tackling pensioner poverty.

Seven out of ten pensioners entitled to help with their housing costs but who are not claiming it are living in poverty, the spending watchdog warns.

But the poll contained similar criticisms of the chancellor's Budget last week, with 49 % saying the scrapping of pensioner tax allowance was unfair and 53 % saying the reduction of the top rate of tax to 45 % would do «nothing» to help the economy.

SSNIT also believes the 18 % increase is realistic as this will help sustain the fund into the future and enable the scheme to increase and pay the pensions of pensioners every year.

:: Urgently pay Edo State pensioners over 42 months outstanding pension benefits and entitlements from the over N29bn Paris Club refunds received by your government and meant for the payment of pension arrears and gratuities;:: Adopt a human rights policy of guaranteeing regular payment of pension benefits and entitlements so that pensioners and their families can live decently;:: Recognize the human rights of Edo State pensioners and ensure their full and effective enjoyment of those rights, as well as provide them with information to enable them to claim their rights;:: Treat all pensioners in Edo State as individuals with humanity and dignity and respect and promote their higher standard of living and improve economic and social conditions for all pensioners;:: Provide Edo State pensioners with proper support and assistance to alleviate their plight, including by ensuring informal, community - based and recreation - oriented programs for pensioners to help develop their sense of self - reliance and independence;:: Reduce opportunities for corruption in the spending of the Paris Club refunds

The tory site has the party's alternative budget proposals: * Freezing council tax for two years, worth over # 200 for the typical family * Abolishing income tax on savings for all basic rate taxpayers, worth up to # 7,200 a year * Raising the income tax threshold for pensioners, worth up to # 400 a year * Help for the unemployed to upskill and reskill during the recession - and tax breaks for companies who create new jobs That, apparently, is it.

Alternatively he can say that he has had to change his position and is doing so for the great moral purpose of helping the low paid into work and to ensure better targeting of scarce resources on the very neediest, including poor pensioners.

Research from the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) suggests that pensioners living in poverty could be helped off the breadline if they downsize their home or take out a form of equity release scheme.

A DWP spokesman responded: «Council tax benefit helps over five million people on low incomes, including over 2.5 million pensioner households.

«BlackRock wants better outcomes for pensioners and savers and I want to help them deliver that,» Osborne said.

«If our losses today are part - payment for every family that is more secure because of a job we helped create, every person with depression who is treated with the compassion they deserve, every child who does a little better in school, every apprentice with a long and rewarding career to look forward to, every gay couple who know their love is worth no less than everyone else's, and every pensioner with a little more freedom and dignity in retirement, then I hope our losses can be endured with a little selfless dignity.»

Some of the current # 2.7 bn spending on the Winter Fuel Payment could be better focused on helping the poorest pensioners, for example, by means - testing the payment, or by raising pensioners» minimum income guarantee.

Members call on the Government to explore the possibility of means - testing pensioners and to reinvest any savings into insulation and other measures to help the poor to bring down the cost of heating their homes» — The Times (#)

With financial help from the state concentrated on pensioners and the young, one in seven working - age adults without dependent children are now living in poverty — the highest ever level.

He welcomed many of these «rabbits», such as increased financial help for pensioners, but asked why the chancellor had only mentioned Lord Turner's commission on pensions once in his statement.

Can well - off pensioners help with the rising costs of social care for the growing minority who need it but can't afford it?

In an episode from 2013, Michael Buerk examines claims that Britain's pensioners are part of an untouchable group when it comes to government welfare cuts and that some shouldn't get any help at all

43 % of the general public backed the idea on the grounds that, in today's harsh financial climate, the Government should «use the money instead to provide more help to people who need the money more», whereas 48 % said it would be wrong to do this, as «pensioners have spent their working lives paying for their state retirement benefits».

A party spokesman told the Guardian newspaper: «If you're faced with a choice in terms of helping the wealthiest pensioners or helping the vulnerable across Britain, then his priority is the vulnerable people across the country who need the most help.»

Mr Cameron's line changed this week, when he proposed tax cuts for savers and extra help for pensioners.

I hear all the time about pensioners struggling to help their children put down deposits on first homes, after a multi-decade property boom that has seen houses in some areas increase in value one hundredfold in just 40 years, lifting even modest family homes way out of the reach of those on ordinary incomes.

In their campaign literature, the MPs say free bus passes, free TV licences, winter fuel payments, pension credit and other help for pensioners could be axed.

Now what that will enable you to do is to cushion the blow of the current council tax increases, but also that will be of particular help to those single households, and in particular of course, the pensioners; they are the ones that are suffering the most.

Workers, homeowners and pensioners are rightly asking what Labour and Plaid are doing for them... This crisis shows the need for parties to work together, to help businesses remain productive.

He accused Gordon Brown of «raising the hopes» of many pensioners over proposals for free personal care that would only help a «fraction» of people.

I am a pensioner and need your help.

Pensioner Leslie Gilmer allegedly boarded the train with a standard ticket, but helped himself to the first - class...

Pensioner Leslie Gilmer allegedly boarded the train with a standard ticket, but helped himself to the first - class wine and snacks trolley.