Sentences with phrase «including social welfare benefits»

Using 2010 data, Timothy Smeeding, founder of the Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg, reports absolute poverty using a methodology that takes into account all forms of income, including social welfare benefits (see Figure 3).

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[10] Examples of money income — sometimes referred to as «cash income» — include: wages and salaries; income from dividends; earnings from self - employment; rental income; child support and alimony payments; Social Security, disability, and unemployment benefits; cash welfare assistance; and pensions and other retirement income.

She spoke after Labour, Tory and Green MSPs on Holyrood's Social Security Committee united in June to vote through a series of amendments to the Scottish Government's Child Poverty Bill - including one by Green MSP Alison Johnstone requiring ministers to set out whether they will use new welfare powers to increase child benefit.

Perhaps you are including veteran's benefits, which might better fit as social welfare spending (albeit particularly targeted).

The defendants are accused of concocting various schemes to steal welfare benefits, including underreporting income, concealing home and / or business ownership, using false names and bogus social security information and providing misleading household composition.

But once social welfare benefits are included, and we look at absolute instead of relative poverty, the U.S. is hardly an outlier.

Examples of exempt property include your home, the car you use for work, equipment you use at work, Social Security checks, pensions, veteran's benefits, welfare and retirement savings.

Consideration of total financial circumstances includes a review of the borrower's disposable income (including welfare benefits, Social Security benefits, child support, veterans benefits, SSI and workmen's compensation) and «reasonable and necessary expenses», such as food, housing, utilities, medical care, work - related expenses and dependent care costs.

From there, the idea of government responsibility in providing economic security and welfare grew, from unimaginable realities, such as the English Poor Laws of 1601 that called for the dependent poor population to wear a shameful P on their clothing, to shadows of our present Social Security system, like Thomas Paine's Agrarian Justice that called for a system that included annual benefits of 10 pounds sterling paid to every person age 50 and older, to protect against poverty in old - age.

In addition, mainstream social housing is closed off to a person in his position as is entitlement to welfare benefits, including housing benefit.

Agencies have no private clients to soften the impact of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill that proposes to remove entire areas of law from scope including almost all «social welfare law» (welfare benefits, employment, debt, most housing and immigration) and family except where there is domestic violence.

To help recipients — most of them single parents — prepare for, find, and keep jobs, it also offered an array of services and incentives, including: mandatory employment - related, social, and health services; intensive case management; a modest financial work incentive that increased the portion of recipients» earnings that could be disregarded in calculating cash benefits; extended transitional child care assistance for recipients who left welfare for work; and a parental responsibility mandate that, among other things, required recipients to make sure their children attended school.