Sentences with phrase «pension cost of living increases»

The roots of the case date from 2010, when the coalition government allowed pension schemes to move from RPI to CPI, which is cheaper and widely considered to be more accurate, for pension cost of living increases.

Not exact matches

Rising housing prices raise the cost of living, while rising stock and bond prices increase the cost of buying a retirement income — leaving pension funds unable to make good on their promises.

And this situation is becoming worse as pensions are rapidly becoming a thing of the past, life expectancies along with accompanying health care costs are increasing, and even social security is facing a crisis point.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the Company; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; disruptions in information technology networks and systems; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's dividend payments on its Series A Preferred Stock; tax law changes or interpretations; pricing actions; and other factors.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the business and operations of the Company in the expected time frame; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; tax law changes or interpretations; and other factors.

The mayor unveiled a $ 47 million proposed bill that would call for Albany to increase disability benefits of «uniformed» public employees hired after 2009 by changing the payment formula, boosting cost - of - living adjustments and ending the policy of subtracting the workers» Social Security earnings from their pension checks.

Legislators in Colorado, Minnesota and South Dakota earlier this year voted to limit cost - of - living increases previously promised in their pension systems.

A fight over disability pension benefits escalated on Friday, with the de Blasio administration defending its proposal and police and fire unions and members of the City Council claiming it short - changes uniformed workers, forcing them to choose between a better line - of - duty pension or a higher cost - of - living increase after retirement.

House lawmakers in Illinois have passed the first step toward significant reform of the state's woefully underfunded pension system, but the controversial move would limit cost - of - living increases.

Annual staff pay rises, increases in national insurance and pension contributions, the introduction of the national living wage and apprenticeship levy, and new qualifications that needed new resources, had also increased costs, said the letter.

All this before we consider the cost pressures facing schools during the next comprehensive review period: increased national insurance and pension contributions, cost of living increases, incremental drift, reduction in post-16 academic programmes, reductions to education services grant funding for academies.

Given that at least 6,006 Second City teachers — or one - fifth of employees covered by the pension — will retire in the next decade, Emanuel will have to do more than just freeze cost - of - living increases for pensioners of this and those drawing off the rest of the city's annuity funds.

Part of the frustration from school leaders is that their costs have been rising because of actions taken by the government — rising national insurance contributions, increasing pension costs, the national living wage and, from April, the apprenticeship levy.

In these hard economic times, too many Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley, Lower Mainland people, and British Columbians who lived free of financial crisis until now, find themselves facing the shame of debt they can not repay after taking out too much easy credit just to live, pay for necessities such as housing, food, medicine, etc., a reflection of our ever growing senior and minimum wage population funded with insufficient pensions and facing rising living costs without corresponding increase in earnings.

Post-employment benefit increases — or cost - of - living adjustments known as COLAs — help to insulate retirees from the effects of inflation and are an important feature of most state and local government pension plans.

While it's important not to overstate the case — again, improved health care can be a double - edged sword, if people are able to live longer because of it but at greater financial cost — one way to interpret this study is that if more people are not economically old, that is they are still contributing to society on their own and not collecting pension or requiring increased health care, there is less burden on falling population levels from an otherwise aging population.

With potential cost implications from areas such as the government's new Apprenticeship Levy, pension Auto Enrolment, the National Living Wage and business rate assessments, firms will need to maintain control of expenditure if profitability is to be increased.

If increasing state pension age is just about cost saving, then the government should acknowledge this — as things stand, this ignores the wider conversation that needs to be had around different ways to manage the implications of people living longer, and guaranteeing that the jobs market and social infrastructure is in place to ensure that people in old age get adequate support.

Misled by fears of an unfunded liability, the NDP government which followed began cutting cost of living adjustments under the Friedland formula (Bill 165) though did increase pension supplements for unemployed injured workers.

With little access to information and inadequate disability pensions, workers and their families knew that as hard - working, honest employees they deserved better: being treated with respect and dignity, job security or full compensation, annual cost of living increases, the right to diagnosis and treatment by their own doctors, and adequate safety protection.

The background to the changes, Sales J said, was the «growing cost of pension provision as life expectation increases... constraints upon the public finances in current circumstances and a desire on the part of the government to reduce the costs of redundancy through restructuring of government departments».

Many of the pension plan limitations will change for 2015 because the increase in the cost - of - living index met the statutory thresholds that trigger their adjustment.