Sentences with phrase «means tested payments»

HRC is a condition for DEASP means tested payments.

Once a protection seeker is granted status they may apply for a DEASP means tested payment appropriate to their circumstances.

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Swapping four complex tax credits for one means - tested payment would simplify things for families and government alike

New mortgage rules this year mean federally regulated lenders must subject homebuyers seeking uninsured mortgages to a stress test to ensure they can continue to make payments even if rates rise.

There should also be a gradual shift towards raising the basic state pension in line with earnings, and, while he would maintain the pensioner's credit, he would freeze the maximum level of payments to limit means - testing as much as possible.

These means - tested weekly payments of up to # 30 are a crucial means of support for those who wish to remain in further education - and it is simply not possible for the Government to claim their cuts to be fair at the same time as they remove this support for the poorest in our society.

Robin Williamson, Technical Director of LITRG, said: «Unless support benefits such as free school meals are co-ordinated with mainstream welfare payments, such as tax credits and means - tested benefits, the interaction between the two can produce real disincentives to enter or remain in work.»

But he remained a trusted regular in the election debate spin rooms and TV and radio interviews, solidly defending Tory policies on tricky issues like means testing winter fuel payments.

The programme combines six means - tested benefits into a single payment and is designed to help more people back into work.

Means - testing of the winter fuel payment and the controversial «dementia tax», where the Government planned to make elderly people pay for their own social care, did not make the Speech either.

Of course it might be that Mary's payments from Bob were always means - tested and so any charitable donation voids Bob's responsibilities.

And even if it does not feature in the British election debate, the idea of replacing means - tested cash benefits with an unconditional, universal weekly payment to every adult citizen as a right of citizenship will soon be tested at the Swiss ballot box, with a referendum on basic income in Switzerland due sometime this year.

The Financial Times suggested that in order to find additional cuts of # 30 - 40bn, the incoming government might have to cut public sector pay by 5 per cent, freeze benefits for a year, means - test child benefit, abolish winter fuel payments, and cut free TV licences and bus passes.

But many of the policies in this manifesto — scrapping free school meals for infants, means testing winter fuel payments and removing the triple lock on pensions — could easily be described as vote losers.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

It's understood that May agreed to drop plans to undo the pensions triple lock and means test winter fuel allowance payments in return for DUP support.

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 guaPayment could be better focused on helping the poorest pensioners, for example, by means - testing the payment, or by raising pensioners» minimum income guapayment, or by raising pensioners» minimum income guarantee.

That comes on the back of this week's Ed Balls speech, which seemed to accept the core tenants of austerity and accept the end of universal welfare by means testing the winter fuel payment.

Miliband's comments came as he set out Labour's first plans for cuts to the welfare system, ending out - of - work benefits for roughly 100,000 18 - to 21 - year - olds and replacing them with a less costly means - tested payment dependent on training.

Their plans have generated a great deal of controversy which, combined with means testing for winter fuel payments and ending the triple lock on pensions, moves the -LSB-...]

Most controversially of all, if the government believes that working families should keep more of their earnings (to spend more effectively than government can) then why means - test child benefit - the only remaining recognition in the tax system of the cost of raising a family - in order to preserve free bus rides and winter fuel payments to well - off over 60s?

Upon dissolution or winding up of said corporation's affairs, whether voluntary or involuntary, all of its assets then remaining in the hands of the board of directors shall, after paying or making provision for payment of all of said corporation's liabilities, be distributed, transferred, conveyed, delivered, and paid over only to educational, scientific, literary, or charitable organizations that are exempt from federal income tax under section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and which are not private foundations within the meaning of section 509 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, on whatever terms and conditions and in whatever amounts the board of directors may determine, for use exclusively for educational, scientific, literary, or charitable purposes, except that no distribution shall be made to organizations testing for public safety.

The Scrapped Education Maintenance grants could be reinstated which previously saw pupils receive means - tested payments of up to # 30 per week to encourage 16 to 18 - year - olds to stay in education.

These were means - tested payments of between # 10 and # 30 per week intended to encourage 16 - to 18 - year - olds to stay in sixth forms and further education colleges.

A «means test» is applied to determine whether the debtor can afford to make partial payment to his or her creditors.

We could enrich the National Child Benefit Supplement and Child Tax Benefit, a means - tested monthly payment to parents with children, so that low - and middle - income families have more money for child care, and which could be used to supplement educational savings.

There is a Schedule I for Income where you list your monthly income including Social Security payments and other income that might have been excluded form the means test look back income.

The purpose of the means test is to figure out whether you have enough disposable income, after subtracting certain allowed expenses and required debt payments, to make payments on a Chapter 13 plan.

Child support payments are one of the monthly expenses that should be included when calculating the means test.

Remember that part of the means test takes into account your payments on secured debts that due within the next 60 months.

But having to make child support payments is not a guarantee that you will qualify for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, as you may still earn so much money that you can not pass the means test.

For some, that higher payment stream could bring you into the safe zone as far as means testing is concerned, paving the way for a Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

The means test is used by the courts to determine eligibility for Title 11 of the United States Code Chapter 7, or payments in Chapter 13 bankruptcy.

There is a long form of the means test that factors in secured debt payments such as your mortgage and other necessary expenses like medical bills and insurance.

For purposes of the means test, the U.S. Bankruptcy Code defines current monthly income as including: «any amount paid by any entity other than the debtor (or in a joint case the debtor and the debtor's spouse), on a regular basis for the household expenses of the debtor or the debtor's dependents (and in a joint case the debtor's spouse if not otherwise a dependent)...» Benefits received under the Social Security Act, payments to victims of war crimes or crimes against humanity on account of their status as victims of such crimes, and payments to victims of international terrorism or domestic terrorism on account of their status as victims of such terrorism are excluded from the means test.

Some college fund payments made by the filing adult, on the other hand, may have to be included in the means test as income instead of expenses.

If it is more than the median, you must pass the means test, which determines if you have enough disposable monthly income (DMI), after subtracting certain allowed expenses and required debt payments, to make payments on a Chapter 13 plan.

This is why the means test is so important because it will determine whether you are obligated to commit a portion of your monthly income to unsecured creditors for several years or to have your obligations to such creditors extinguished without further payments.

The usual means tests apply and payment is the same as for the prison law cases currently in scope.

E.D.Va., 2008), in the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division, the bankruptcy judge held that the disposable income of an above - median - income debtor can be determined using the monthly income resulting from Official Form B22C, the means testing form, minus the expenses allowed by 11 U.S.C. 707 (b)(2)(A)(iii), including payments on a luxury goods, like BMWs, and an expensive, $ 700K home, even if such payments were at the expense of the unsecured creditors, who were only receiving a 3 % dividend.

You may be eligible for other payments, if you pass a means test or if you are in urgent need.

To qualify, a person must be in receipt of a payment for the Department and they must live alone or only with certain specified people and the household must satisfy a means test.

To get this payment you must meet certain conditions and you must satisfy a means test.

The pension is not means tested, so your rate of payment is not affected by other income you may have such as an occupational pension, earnings from employment, etc..

These are means - tested payments.

If the assessment under the One - Parent Family Payment (OFP) conditions is less favourable to a person who was in receipt of Lone Parent's Allowance at 02/01/1997, s / he can continue to be paid on the basis of the Lone Parent's Allowance means test for the duration of her entitlement.

For these payments your household income is assessed in the means test.

A person in receipt of pension may also qualify for half - rate Carer's Allowance, if they are caring for someone; this is a means - tested payment.

A fuel allowance is a means - tested payment, payable during certain months, to assist pensioners with heating costs.

Social insurance payments are based on PRSI contributions and so your payment is not means tested.