Sentences with phrase «more generous»

Mr Miliband will hand Scottish MPs the unprecedented power to set a higher state pension and more generous dole and disability payments in a desperate attempt to reverse the exodus of his voters to the SNP.

Mr Miliband will allow Scotland to set a more generous benefits system than the rest of the UK if he becomes Prime Minister

In his first foray into the election campaign, Mr Brown said Labour wanted the Scottish Parliament to be able to make top - up payments to all benefit claimants if it wins the general election, raising the possibility of a higher state pension and more generous dole payments north of the border.

He told MPs yesterday: «I think when people will see it, they will see it is fair: fair to the public sector, people in the public sector will get a much more generous pension than is available in almost any part of the private sector; but it is also fair to the taxpayers.»

Hutchins says the governor's proposal is more generous than the three states that already have paid family leave.

«We were successful in scaling back the original Republican proposal, which was far more generous, and in the end we were able to save 300 jobs,» said Heastie spokesman Michael Whyland.

J.P. New York State Preservation Credit to Increase The New York State Assembly has passed a bill to make a historic preservation tax credit more generous, raising the maximum award from $ 5 million to $ 12 million.

A tax break for working parents trying to meet childcare costs will be more generous than expected and include all children under the age of 12, the Government has announced.

The city's campaign finance program is more generous for challengers who face self - financed candidates.

Tory MP David Burrowes, who campaigned for ministers to introduce it, said last night that the allowance should be «more generous and more targeted at couples with young children».

State support in Britain is more than three times more generous than in eastern European countries, a new study showed today.

Some years ago, his former think tank, the Centre for Social Justice, proposed a far more generous transferable allowance of # 20 a week.

The mayor is also expected to propose a more generous model for public financing of elections, Mr. Phillips said.

Conservative backbench rebels, who have been urging Hammond to reverse the cuts, signalled that they welcomed the changes to taper rates — but would not give up the fight to make the system more generous.

The claimant count - the number of people claiming unemployment benefit - is one of the more generous measures of unemployment, as it counts only those who want to, and are eligible to, sign on.

3.51 pm: The Lib Dems have voted in favour of replacing the pupil premium with a beefed - up version called education credit, which would be more generous and would cover a wider group of disadvantaged children.

2.30 pm: Delegates debate a motion calling for the pupil premium to be beefed up and turned into an education credit, which would be more generous and would be available to a wider range of disadvantaged children.

Their relationship appears to have grown closer — and Ashcroft's support more generous — after David Cameron appointed Hague shadow foreign secretary in December 2005.

Liu, however, is also employing the term betrayal to characterize Avella's lack of fidelity to the Democratic Party and, therefore, progressive issues such as the Women's Equality Act, a more generous minimum wage, and permanent funding for de Blasio's pre-K initiative in the form of higher income taxes on the wealthiest city residents.

«I had done the federal response when I was HUD secretary, and I can tell you that the federal government in similar circumstances was more active, was more generous, provided more support,» he said.

Even Trump, a Republican, appeared to backtrack when he called the bill «mean» and implored the GOP - led Senate to be «more generous» as they labored to assemble companion legislation.

Indeed, he says he wants «deep public financing» — which has to mean something even more generous than the six - to - one match of small donations that the city already does.

Two of the city's leading Democrats joined police and firefighter unions Friday to push for more generous disability benefits, setting up a fight with Mayor Bill de Blasio.

He is known to be particularly generous even by the standards of the more generous Republican donors.

The details of the proposal are also being questioned by Democratic lawmakers in the Legislature, who have their own versions of paid family leave they say is more generous.

When I was starting out as a young Labour activist she was an inspiration and couldn't have been more generous with her time.

But in recent years, the company has been far more generous to Cuomo and the Democrats, giving $ 813,500 between 2011 and 2014 the analysis show.

And they want a more generous free tuition program for SUNY schools, encompassing more families in New York.

Let me say this to the unions: to go on strike in economic times like this, when you're being offered pensions far more generous than most other people could ever afford, will hit growth, will cost jobs.

[16] The use of the d'Hondt method makes for a higher effective threshold than certain other allocation method such as the Hare quota or Sainte - Laguë method, which are more generous to small parties.

Golden said officers who risk their lives shouldn't be denied more generous disability because of an arbitrary cut - off in required years of service.

Pensions and health costs for teachers and other staff are substantially higher for the traditional, unionized public schools compared to charters, which offer their employees 401ks rather than more generous defined benefit plans.

The government is not alone in looking for ways to help reconcile the challenges facing working families with young children, with the Liberal Democrats proposing 19 months of more generous parental leave (able to be taken by any parent) and the Conservative Party proposing flexible parental leave to help make Britain more family friendly.

Public pensions are being tightened in other states across the country where government employees, as in New York, receive far more generous retirement benefits than most private employees; many companies are eliminating pensions altogether.

State lawmakers are pushing legislation again to restore more generous disability pensions to recently hired cops and firefighters — drawing fire from a budget watchdog who warned the cost would...

But later switched to the more generous second homes allowance - claiming # 18,181 in total, the newspaper said.

Commenting on the proposals, Chris Pond, chief executive officer of the charity One Parent Families, said: «We hope that the government's forthcoming white paper on child support will introduce a far more generous change by enabling single parents on income support to keep all of any child maintenance they receive from the CSA or its successor.»

As Lord Pannick said, it would have been better if the concession «be drafted in more generous language», but the principle was established: «It will be for the judges to decide how and when that test should apply.»

He then makes an interesting point: The union allows the benefit system to be more generous.

Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, told congressional leadership that he will not support the latest version of the GOP tax bill if the legislation doesn't make the child tax credit more generous — something that would drive the overall cost up still higher.

Lord Turner's pension commission recommended the creation of a new low - cost savings scheme to help people save, a more generous state pension paid for by a higher retirement age and a change to the eligibility criteria based on residency, to help women and carers.

«This means that they pay their tax through self - assessment, rather than PAYE, pay less by way of National Insurance and are able to deduct more generous expenses than would normally be allowable for those who are in employment.»

With public support in his hip pocket, you'd think the governor could afford to be more generous over hearing the opposition out.

After critics said that's not enough, Cuomo indicated he'll amend his plan to make it more generous, as first reported in Politco New York.

The IDA tax breaks granted in both phases are more generous than the standard offered most businesses.

The federal government was actually much more generous to New York in those drop - dead days of the 1970s, when more than 20 percent of the city budget came from federal aid.

Since then, one of the governor's more generous supporters has been Mr. Loeb, who, as the founder of Third Point L.L.C., has a reputation for sending incendiary activist letters to companies that his fund has gone after, seeking either management or structural changes.

NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Tish James joined police and firefighter unions to push for more generous disability benefits, setting up a fight with NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Pugh is more generous in his assessment of Ramsay MacDonald who he judges to have been, under difficult circumstances, a good party leader, but less successful as prime minister.

It would also restore the link between the state pension and earnings rather than prices to make it more generous, and reduce the use of means - testing through the pension credit, to encourage people to save for their old age.