Sentences with phrase «more policy flexibility»

They allow you more policy flexibility options concerning your life insurance.

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According to a Defense Department memo obtained by Military Times, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness will direct «an effort to form a working group to determine changes to military personnel policies necessary to provide the Military Departments increased flexibility to organize, train, and equip more ready and lethal forces.»

The report says China has made progress by improving the flexibility of its exchange - rate policy, but more is needed.

A well - functioning local - currency bond market allows a government much more economic policy flexibility than can be experienced when tied to foreign currency borrowing.

What's not clear is whether WestJet will eventually abandon its popular policy of not «overselling» flights now that it's offering travellers who pay extra for more flexibility to change their itinerary.

The target is a medium term one, so there's a little bit of flexibility over the short term, and I think experience shows that in trying to do economic policy and trying to control inflation there really isn't an ability to fine tune these things over very short periods of time, you have to take a more medium term perspective.

The speech starts by setting out three key themes of the Bank's recent communication about Australia's transition from the resources sector boom to more normal economic conditions: that the sheer scale of the boom means that this transition is challenging, and that the broader global environment compounds the challenge; that a reasonably successful transition is possible given our economy's positive fundamentals and flexibility; and that monetary policy is doing what it can to help the transition, but that the chances of success would be boosted by a lift in productivity growth and an increase in the expected risk - adjusted rate of return on investment.

To avoid a similar fiasco, the SPD has insisted this time on a number of social policies in the 2013 coalition treaty, such as the introduction of a minimum wage, more flexibility in the pension system, an increase in old - age pensions and benefits for the chronically ill as well as an increase in social expenditure on matters like education, health and family benefits.

Main Bill Wiggin calls for more flexibility in the Common Fisheries Policy»

Launching his party's policy paper on families, he argued that the priorities should be flexibility for working families, high quality childcare and care for older people - as well as fairer taxation for all families and more affordable housing.

It sparked a national conversation on giving states more flexibility in education policy.

The issue of breadth and flexibility has been recommended by policy - makers and educators as a means of making the Ph.D. more adaptable and useful in a broader range of professions outside of academia.

Such «a property analysis may allow more flexibility in defining the legal status of the embryo and properly serve the needs of public policy» [36, 47, 50].

Cambridge, MA — When current U.S. education secretary, Arne Duncan, headed the Chicago Public Schools in 2004 - 05, the city implemented a new collective bargaining agreement that covered teacher dismissal policy: principals were given more flexibility to dismiss non-tenured teachers.

What's needed, he says, are policy changes, giving the best teachers incentives to go into the most demanding schools and allowing principals to have more control over hiring and evaluating teachers and more flexibility and control over their budgets.

Republican presidetial hopeful Elizabeth Hanford Dole last week outlined her vision for reshaping federal education policy, calling for significantly more flexibility for states and school districts.

And the California state school board this month approved an Orange County district's plan to teach its limited - English - proficient students mostly in English under a revised state policy that gives schools more flexibility to stop teaching students in their native languages.

ESSA gives states more flexibility to decide their own testing policies, including what to do if a school or district falls below 95 percent.

As Lindsey described, a really good opportunity to rethink how the federal government supports the education of active - duty military families and to try to consider more choice - based, choice - friendly policies, so that these families do have that flexibility.

However, given the unprecedented authority and flexibility states now have under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to develop systems that are responsive to student needs, policy leaders can use this opportunity to think more strategically about questions that better reflect the student populations served in alternative settings.

In short, this change in policy merely gives schools more flexibility with respect to how the funds can be used and leaves the decision about the best way to do so — be it for expanded learning time or out - of - school time programming — up to them.

Policies that allow for flexibility, like those now promoted in Brazil, enable local schools to become more relevant to the individuals they serve.

[2] Despite the risks that accompany these localized policies, the huge changes and successes under the competency model were made possible by the freedom, flexibility, and choice granted to schools to create programs to help students in very different communities and situations as opposed to more stifling national mandates.

Through this work, ConnCAN has emerged as a leading voice for education reform, built a base of thousands of supporters across the state and secured dozens of policy wins including: the adoption of rigorous education standards, more flexibility to recruit great new teachers and a 50 - percent increase in the number of students enrolled in public charter schools.

In addition to providing policy flexibility, states can consider amending key policies related to high schools in order to move toward a framework that is more conducive to redesign.

«As leaders in Wisconsin education, we are excited about her commitment to sending more power and flexibility back to the states so that we can have a greater say in education policy.

3) Redesign policies and practices to support flexibility and performance: The goal of this strategy is to make teacher employment decisions more quickly.

The State School Board's recent decision to eliminate physical education, arts and health courses as core statewide requirements for middle - school students is seen as a way to give local districts more flexibility in designing curriculum, which is a positive development in the context of allowing more local control over education policy.

Everybody in Washington claims they favor more flexibility in federal education policy... Or so they say, until push comes to shove.

Both the House and the Senate passed bills this month that would give more flexibility to states to set their own policies.

Thirty year term policies will provide you more flexibility but come at a much higher price.

This might not matter to you if the policies offered fit your needs, and you may find more flexibility with a return of premium rider that you can add to a wider variety of policies, but it's something to keep in mind when you're looking at policies that are available to you.

With an Indexed Universal Life policy you have the ability to pay more or less each month (there is a minimum to cover fees, and a maximum based on the MEC limit) but the policy has much more premium flexibility than the other types of life insurance policies in the market.

Whole Life policies have relatively fixed premiums which can be supplemented through dividends, whereas Variable Universal Life has more flexibility built into the policy.

Most consumers forego mortgage life insurance policies altogether and choose to either purchase a traditional term life insurance policy, which is comparable in price and effectively serves the same purpose while providing more financial flexibility to beneficiaries.

Much like Universal Life, Variable Life insurance is a type of Permanent Life insurance that affords the purchaser more flexibility than a traditional Whole Life insurance policy.

While Life Choice UL is the better policy for those that know they want over $ 100,000 of universal life coverage, Life Step UL charges a bit more to come with greater flexibility.

A UL policy provides more flexibility by allowing you a choice from a suite of investments, from conservative to aggressive.

Universal Life provides the flexibility to pay more or less into your policy, based on minimum cash value requirements.

But you also have the flexibility of making the annual premium, allowing your dividend to purchase more paid - up life insurance, further enhancing your policy's compound growth potentialities.

If you don't mind paying a little bit more for convenience, flexibility, and guaranteed coverage in your burial insurance policy, this plan might be right for you.

This added flexibility can give you the valuable life insurance coverage you need, while maintaining more control over several important parts of your policy.

Universal life insurance is designed to offer many of the same benefits as traditional permanent * life insurance policies such as whole life, but offers more flexibility that allows you to adjust your premiums and coverage as your needs change.

Universal policies offer more flexibility than whole life insurance with respect to premiums.

As a result, the premiums will be higher than those for term at the start of the policy, but there can be more flexibility in benefits.

If you are looking for a very safe and stable product, whole life and universal life offer guaranteed minimum returns on investment, while a universal policy lets you alter your death benefits and premium payments if you need more flexibility.

Plus, as stated in the article, the flexibility and relaxed withdrawal policies it just seemed more «user friendly» to me.

A whole policy provides more flexibility in that you usually have more freedom to change the overall death benefit, and this type of life insurance policy can accumulate a cash value.

Recently, they've become less prolific in the whole life scene as other companies, higher on our list, have offered more flexibility or policy options.

These stand alone policies offer more flexibility than hybrid long - term care insurance.