Sentences with phrase «of social welfare benefits»

At each assessment, parents were asked whether either parent was currently in receipt of a social welfare benefit.

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And the politicians in Washington who are working to curtail basic benefits such as health care and food stamps plainly won't consider the value of spending trillions on a new social - welfare scheme.

[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.

For its part, the federal government, from the earliest census in 1790 to the creation of New Deal social welfare programs, has long relied on aggregate as well as individual data to distribute resources and administer benefits.

In social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.

The fact that every first world country has some form of social welfare implemented isn't stupid, it's brilliant; it's a sure fire way to garner votes from those that will always vote for whoever promises them more benefits.

The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.

Gilpin poses a fundamental question: «Is the purpose of economic activity to benefit individual consumers, to promote certain social welfare goals, or to maximize national power?»

But despite the real gains in social morality that came in the wake of the abolition of the slave trade, despite the rise in the status of women, despite the benefits that came from the enactment of child - labor laws and the establishment of the welfare state, did not the nineteenth century also bequeath to us those proposed «solutions» to social ills that led to mass starvation in Russia and China, to the utopian nightmares of communism and fascism, to wars unending, and ¯ in those societies that actually managed to abolish most social evils ¯ to a hedonism that is undermining society from within?

The justice that comes through enforced sharing (found in the tax and benefit systems of welfare states) is higher - since it reflects a consensus of social solidarity - but still not enough.

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.

Social welfare policies which encourage marriage and family cohesion such as increasing the «marriageability» of men, through wage supports and the EITC, will be of more long term benefit than creating new programs and new services.

This rights - based development is closely tied to the development of social security — disabled people were not properly considered during the initial forming of the welfare state because a paternalistic society believed them to be cared for in institutions and so there was no such thing as a «disability benefit».

Namely, he implemented social housing programs, gave residency status (and therefore the associated social welfare benefits) to rural migrant workers, and emphasized a need for a more balanced distribution of wealth.

Thirdly, the appointment of Alistair Darling to the Department of Social Security is clearly designed to re-launch the attacks on the welfare state which stalled after the rebellion on lone parent benefit cuts.

Welfare benefits reduced to 2006 levels, social welfare bill cut by equivalent to 1.5 % of public expenditure

While technically the money side of social welfare is indeed not payable to illegal aliens, (1) They still get an incredibly costly (to taxpayers) set of benefits such as free public school education for their kids; law - and - order which is a public good; and medical care in ER facilities who have to treat everyone, with or without insurance.

«This solid foundation has to be advanced in a manner that our growth trajectory is accelerated, our social and welfare initiatives for ordinary citizens is expanded, the opportunities to provide access and quality education to ALL our children is achieved, and our nation is able to feed itself and reap the benefits in expanded trade of our diversified agricultural produce,» President Mahama stated.

She said: «The idea that a mother in very poor circumstances, left with young children by the father, may find herself having to seek social benefit from the state, which she may not have sought before, when the father may have money while she has nothing that the state does not provide, and may then have to pay a fee to try to get money for the welfare of her children, particularly where she has no money and the father may have some, is profoundly unfair.»

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.

Labour needs to regain voters» trust — especially in the south of England — by rebuilding the welfare state around its original social insurance model so benefits are more directly linked to what a worker has contributed, John Denham, the former communities secretary and one of the few Labour MPs left in the south, proposes today.

• Short - term savings from cutting the middle class out of state benefits as Nick Clegg suggests on child benefit (Britain needs «savage» cuts, says Clegg, 19 September) would weaken public support for the social safety net on which the poorest depend and ultimately endanger the future of the welfare state itself.

Mr Cameron's hopes of securing an agreement on limiting access to Britain's welfare state were dealt a blow yesterday when European Council president Donald Tusk warned there is «presently no consensus» on barring migrants from in - work benefits and social housing.

Professor Agostino Capponi has two major projects in the fintech area: individualized robo - advising and ascertaining the social welfare costs and benefits of a central bank digital currency (CBDC)

Many European countries enjoy great social welfare, i.e. their governments really look after citizens very well with all kinds of benefits.

Friends on benefits: Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner offers a complex drama about the injustice of the U.K.'s social welfare system

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).

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

''... If a child missed five or more days of school in a three - month academic quarter «without good cause,» the social services agency is required to cut welfare benefits for that child's household.

It also demonstrates that the present debate on unequal youth trajectories and the negative configurations of the transitions to adulthood among the poorest, can not be separated from a debate regarding Uruguay's distribution of welfare benefits, social transfers and social expenditure among different age groups.

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.

But the creditor must apply these tests fairly, impartially, and without discriminating against you on any of the following grounds: age, gender, marital status, race, color, religion, national origin, because you receive public income such as veterans benefits, welfare or Social Security, or because you exercise your rights under Federal credit laws such as filing a billing error notice with a creditor.

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.

Among other things, there are distributional issues and natural ecosystem impacts to consider, For that matter, as Amartya Sen points out, simple aggregation of costs and benefits does not always make sense as a measure of social welfare.

Based on data from the European Social Survey for Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, and Switzerland, three different sets of explanations are tested: (1) hypotheses stressing economic determinants, that is, the fear of wage pressure and competition over welfare benefits; (2) hypotheses emphasizing cultural determinants, that is, the perception of immigration as a threat to national identity; and (3) hypotheses focusing on social alienation, that is, dissatisfaction with the way the country's democracy works and the nonintegration into intermediary networks (trade unSocial Survey for Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, and Switzerland, three different sets of explanations are tested: (1) hypotheses stressing economic determinants, that is, the fear of wage pressure and competition over welfare benefits; (2) hypotheses emphasizing cultural determinants, that is, the perception of immigration as a threat to national identity; and (3) hypotheses focusing on social alienation, that is, dissatisfaction with the way the country's democracy works and the nonintegration into intermediary networks (trade unsocial alienation, that is, dissatisfaction with the way the country's democracy works and the nonintegration into intermediary networks (trade unions).

Lord Justice Moses specifically rejected the government's argument that legal aid was a form of social welfare or benefit, it being settled law that discriminatory selection in relation to benefits is a matter for Parliament: «It seems to me that the provision of legal assistance is far from analogous to the distribution of welfare benefits.»

The Court rejected the Lord Chancellor's argument that legal aid should be reduced to «no more than a form of social welfare or benefit».

The case concerns the entitlement of Nazifa Alimanovic and her three German born children, all possessing the Swedish nationality, to German social welfare benefits.

The Court therefore ruled that in case the position of beneficiaries from subsidiary protection can be regarded as being different from third country nationals legally resident in Germany on grounds that are not humanitarian or political or based on international law and who are in receipt of welfare benefits, as these third country nationals could presumably only reside in Germany in case they were able to financially support themselves and may therefore be assumed to be integrated by the time they would be eligible for social security benefits, the residence condition does not infringe on Article 33 of the Qualification Directive.

As mentioned before, the Minister's Instructions themselves indicate that the residence condition should be imposed to prevent the concentration in certain areas of third country nationals in receipt of welfare benefits as this could lead to the emergence of social tension all the negative consequences this entails for the integration of the third country national, and further to locate them in places where they can make ready use of integration facilities available there.

The Committee was «concerned that the reforms to the legal aid system and the introduction of employment tribunal fees have restricted access to justice, in areas such as employment, housing, education and social welfare benefits».

Therefore, while keeping TK secret might benefit the knowledge holding community in the short term, if the culture of the community is destroyed, then the knowledge will be lost resulting in a loss of social welfare both to members of the TK holding communities and to the general public.

There were no courses in welfare law and social benefits calculations back then, but that was the root of 90 % of the problem.

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.

Employee Benefit Liability - liability protection for an employer for claims arising from provisions in an employee benefit insurance plan provided for the economic and social welfare of empBenefit Liability - liability protection for an employer for claims arising from provisions in an employee benefit insurance plan provided for the economic and social welfare of empbenefit insurance plan provided for the economic and social welfare of employees.

My experience supporting clients through a variety of behavioral and psychiatric treatments — as well as my comprehensive education and training in social work and individual welfare — give me confidence in my ability to significantly benefit your clinical team in this capacity.

Under the terms of the Bill, marriage - like benefits will be extended to gay and lesbian couples across a range of areas such as property, social welfare, succession, maintenance, pensions and tax.

Multisite musculoskeletal pain in adolescence as a predictor of medical and social welfare benefits in young adulthood: The Norwegian Arctic Adolescent Health Cohort Study.

This occurred even though these children's mothers showed almost none of the postnatal benefits observed for those visited during pregnancy and infancy (such as reduced welfare dependence, substance abuse, criminal behavior, and child abuse and neglect).8 The mechanisms through which these beneficial effects occurred will be examined in future reports, with a focus on the alteration of maternal prenatal health and the children's corresponding neuropsychological functioning, 22,23 as well as prenatal stress, given that stress during pregnancy affects the social and neuromotor development of nonhuman primates.24, 25