Sentences with phrase «to make work pay»

But effective public policies — to make work pay for low - income parents and to provide high - quality early care and learning experiences for their children — can make a difference.

«Making Work Pay Credit versus Social Security Tax Cut.»

(Note that low - income workers, who qualified for Obama's expiring Making Work Pay tax credit, will suffer a reduction in their take - home pay.

All parties agree that a system that simplifies the benefits system, builds in incentives by making work pay and, thereby, again in theory, saves the state money in the long run by changing cultural attitudes, must be good.

«Universal Credit is already making work pay in one in ten jobcentres and will be rolled out nationally from next year,» a spokesperson said.

As well as making work pay, the Government has to constrain the benefits bill.

«Universal credit is designed to make work pay at each and every hour — 1.5 million people will keep more money as they increase their working hours, on average seeing an extra 14 pence in their pocket out of every single pound earned.»

Making work pay more than benefits makes sense for the single mother who would end up paying out more in childcare costs if she did a low paid job than she would receive if she remained on benefits.

It's galling that low and middle paid workers are having the scales tipped even further against them by this government, who are refusing to stand up for their rights at work that would help make work pay and taking money from their pockets through Universal Credit cuts.

Universal credit was designed to always make work pay, but these plans will undermine that very principle.

LIHEAP, low - income weatherization grants, a «dedicated fund to assist low - income Americans,» plus Making Work Pay tax cut

For example, the Earned Income Credit, Making Work Pay Credit, Additional Child Tax Credit, Adoption Credit (for 2010 and 2011 only), etc..

A parallel effort is going on in the United States to make all work paid for by a government part of the public domain, typically one year after publication.

Under the changes, housing benefit, income support, incapacity benefit and dozens of other payments will be swept away in a major reform programme intended to break the culture of welfare dependency by making work pay.

-- The Making Work Pay is a tax credit worth 6.2 percent of a person's earned income, up to $ 400.

A nontax provision extended «economic recovery payments» to certain individuals who did not qualify for the Making Work Pay credit.

The temporary reduction in the Social Security tax effectively replaced the Making Work Pay (MWP) credit from the 2009 stimulus.

Effective for 2009 and 2010, the Making Work Pay tax credit accounted for half of individual tax cuts.

It also replaced the Making Work Pay credit with a 2 percentage point reduction in the 2011 payroll tax rate for workers.

Making Work Pay was passed as part of the stimulus bill in 2009.

If the Government wishes to «make work pay» it needs to address the issue of affordable childcare.

The priority now has to be instilling confidence about when it will be delivered and, crucially for families, ensuring that when it's up and running Universal Credit makes good on claims that it will make work pay and reduce poverty.

It will make work pay for the first time, tackling in - work poverty and lift over one million people, including 450,000 children, out of poverty.

It looks like IDS» ideological determination to make work pay has been getting in the way of universal credit's implementation - for which we are all footing the bill.

Claim: In 2012 IDS boasted that the roll out of Universal Credit would improve the lives of millions of claimants by «incentivising work and making work pay.»

We welcome the IFS analysis which shows that UC will make work pay and increase financial incentives for people to work more, while also bringing the welfare bill under control,» he said.

For all the talk of universal credit «making work pay» it does nothing of the sort in its current guise.»

Both IDS and Chris Grayling took more important steps towards a reshaping of the welfare system that makes work pay and focuses help on the genuinely needy.

By making work pay and providing a living wage, five million people would be lifted out of poverty and the ballooning benefit bill would be reduced, says the union.

«Chris Grayling fights back over Labour's record on youth unemployment - half a million jobless pupils Main Government unveils the most radical welfare shake - up for 60 years as David Cameron pledges to «make work pay»»

Making work pay.

To set out Labour's alternative plan to create jobs, make work pay and tackle the rising cost of living.

He also pledged to «make work pay for the workers of Britain», saying he would strengthen the minimum wage.

«Today's announcement of extra funds for childcare support for parents working part time is very welcome news for thousands of the poorest parents struggling to make work pay.

And we must highlight the successes of the welfare state, such as DLA allowing disabled people to live independent lives, and tax credits making work pay.

«We are pleased to see there is commitment to making work pay and that the idea of taking away people's housing benefit has been scrapped.

«I'm sorry that my right honourable friend chose to leave the government and let me here in this House recognise his achievements in helping to make work pay, protecting the vulnerable and breaking the decades old cycle of welfare dependency...

«We want to make work pay,» he told a crowd that included several Occupy activists who in 2011 denounced him as a tool of the wealthy.

Mr Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is already locked in a struggle with Mr Osborne, the Chancellor, over plans to restrict benefits to middle - income families and moves to «make work pay» for those currently on benefits.

They will be built around the aim to help people form stronger families, better schools and make work pay.

Your taxes went up in January because the «Making Work Pay» tax credit that was passed through the Recovery Bill expired and the Republicans (who now control the House) blocked an extension which would have been part of the tax cuts package the House passed in December.

Surprising, then, that the Bill in question was introduced by a backbench Labour MP and its main objective is not to reduce the deficit or «make work pay», but to tackle the problem of unregistered voters.

Most would agree that the reforms» ultimate aims — to simplify the welfare system and «make work pay» — are laudable.

«So the two systems — back to work and reformed benefits system — I think you can then legitimately our bit of contract is to make work pay, your bit of the contract is take the work when it is available and not just take it but to work hard, continue to work hard and try and improve your lot.»

We will make work pay and tackle insecurity by strengthening the minimum wage, incentivising the living wage, ending the abuse of zero - hours contracts and expanding free childcare for working parents.

In a speech in Sunderland, the prime minister will say he wants to make work pay and end the «merry - go - round» in which people have their income taxed and their pay «topped up» with benefits.

Labour now has lots of policies: on payday lenders, childcare, energy bills, housing, fairer taxes, making work pay, whole - person care.