Sentences with phrase «payments by levels of government»

In response to comments received on last year's Report, we have included this year a breakdown of payments by levels of government and type of payment.

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Within program expenses, major transfers to persons were up $ 1.1 billion, primarily due to higher old age security payments, reflecting an increase in the number of recipients and higher inflation, as benefits are indexed to quarterly changes in the consumer price index, major transfers to other levels of government were up $ 0.6 billion, reflecting legislative increases; while direct program expenses declined by $ 0.2 billion, as lower «other transfer» payments more than offset increases in departmental / agency operating costs.

Program expenses were lowered by $ 5.4 billion in that Update, with all three major components contributing to the decline: major transfers to persons down $ 1.8 billion, primarily due to lower employment insurance benefits; major transfers to other levels of government, down $ 1.4 billion, primarily reflecting the recovery of the sales tax harmonization transitional payment from British Columbia; and direct program expenses, down $ 2.2 billion, due to lower other transfers.

The Federal Government also levelled similar allegations as well as acceptance of payments unauthorised by law from counts 10 to 14 against the defendants with respect to a cumulative sum of N1, 970,662,130.00.

Every dollar that a bankrupt family makes above the level set by the government is subject to a surplus income payment of 50 % while a person remains bankrupt.

In particular but in no particular order, informed conservation of biological diversity, development of public taste for a thriving ecosystem, responsiveness of governments to the will of individual human beings not of corporate fictions, levelling the playing field by privatizing the carbon cycle, enlightened application of the principles (by which I mean from Newton's Principia) of Science to questions of climate science, and payment for harms by those who cause them.

The letter from 14 members of the House of Representatives, led by Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.), notes their concern with the SEC in being so far behind in meeting the April 2011 statutory deadline for releasing final rules governing a program for oil, gas and mining companies to have to disclose the payments, at project - level, they make to foreign governments...

The federal Government could assist by negotiating such payment levels as part of the HCH.

The Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation proposes, in the national strategy to overcome Indigenous disadvantage, that Commonwealth / State fiscal relations with Indigenous people could be improved by governments employing mechanisms to ensure adequate funding; offering supplementary funding incentives for meeting benchmarks agreed with Indigenous organizations (such as through federal Special Purpose Payments grants); pooling funds across agencies and levels of government; developing a joint agency approach to coordination of services and programs; creating flexible funding arrangements; ensuring geographic distribution of funds; and through prioritising the allocation of funds to community controlled services.

If Indigenous unemployment was reduced to the same level as that commensurate with the rest of the population, and assuming that this latter rate remained constant, then the savings to government in payments to the unemployed, in 1996 dollars, would be around $ 193 million by the year 2001 and $ 274 million by 2006 with much lower unemployment bills of $ 112 and $ 126 million respectively.