Sentences with phrase «pension credit for»

ALBANY — The sponsors of a bill that would have allowed veterans to buy pension credit for service during peacetime condemned Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday for his decision to veto the measure.

· you received income support, income - based jobseeker's allowance, income related employment and support allowance or pension credit for the whole 2013 - 14 tax year, or according to HMRC data, you only have employment or occupational pension (unless you only have a temporary national insurance number or made a fresh claim in 2013 - 14 but did not provide your actual previous year income at the time)

The Pension Credit for older people with just a small pension of their own will rise be # 5 a week from next April - # 260 per year - for a single person; and by # 7.65 per week and # 397 per year for a couple - guaranteeing every person over 60 at least # 6,450 a year.

The measure is designed to provide up to three years of additional pension credit for an expanded pool for state and local government employees with military service.

After vetoing a similar measure only weeks ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers have agreed in advance on legislation to expand a pension credit for veterans.

A more generous base pension would be the logical continuation of recent policies including pension credits for child and elderly care, which already undermine the equivalency principle.

After multiple vetoes in recent years, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday night approved a measure designed to expand pension credits for those public employees who served in the military.

Cuomo celebrated Veterans Day by announcing a deal to let public workers obtain additional pension credits for military service.

Heading into Veterans Day, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has vetoed legislation that would have authorized state pension credits for peacetime military service.

Existing law allows only veterans who served during certain periods of combat — including World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and Iraq — to obtain pension credits for their military service.

Gov. Cuomo announced a deal Wednesday to let public workers obtain additional pension credits for military service — after recently vetoing a similar bill.

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo celebrated Veterans Day Wednesday by announcing a deal to let public workers obtain additional pension credits for military service.

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Combined with low credit demand, this would lower bank earnings, particularly for smaller, deposit - funded, and less diversified institutions, and presenting long - lasting challenges for life insurers and defined - benefit pension funds.

These risks and uncertainties include competition and other economic conditions including fragmentation of the media landscape and competition from other media alternatives; changes in advertising demand, circulation levels and audience shares; the Company's ability to develop and grow its online businesses; the Company's reliance on revenue from printing and distributing third - party publications; changes in newsprint prices; macroeconomic trends and conditions; the Company's ability to adapt to technological changes; the Company's ability to realize benefits or synergies from acquisitions or divestitures or to operate its businesses effectively following acquisitions or divestitures; the Company's success in implementing expense mitigation efforts; the Company's reliance on third - party vendors for various services; adverse results from litigation, governmental investigations or tax - related proceedings or audits; the Company's ability to attract and retain employees; the Company's ability to satisfy pension and other postretirement employee benefit obligations; changes in accounting standards; the effect of labor strikes, lockouts and labor negotiations; regulatory and judicial rulings; the Company's indebtedness and ability to comply with debt covenants applicable to its debt facilities; the Company's ability to satisfy future capital and liquidity requirements; the Company's ability to access the credit and capital markets at the times and in the amounts needed and on acceptable terms; and other events beyond the Company's control that may result in unexpected adverse operating results.

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors who are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 percent rate, invite all kinds of tax shelter abuse.

The system could be expanded to include taxpayers with income from dividends, interest, pensions, individual retirement account distributions, and unemployment insurance benefits, as well as low - income earners qualifying for the earned income tax credit (EITC).

The recent stock market and real estate bubbles are much like pyramid schemes in the sense that what is bidding up stock and property prices is an exponential inflow of new money from pension plans and mutual funds (for shares) and bank credit (for real estate).

American National and its subsidiaries offer a broad line of products and services, which include life insurance, annuities, health insurance, credit insurance, pension products and property and casualty insurance for personal lines, agribusiness and certain commercial exposures.

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors that are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 per cent rate, invite all kinds of tax - shelter abuse.

The new credit office at Canada's Public Sector Pension, which manages $ 112 billion for federal public servants, will include loan originations and other alternative debt securities, said Jessica McEachern, a PSP spokeswoman.

Premier Wynne deserves credit for championing the cause of pension reform; without her efforts, it's unlikely that the discussions would have progressed this far.

Verizon recorded a $ 6 billion pretax gain in its fourth - quarter earnings for «severance, pension and benefit» credits — largely due to a gain from «mark - to - market» accounting for its pension plan, the method to which Verizon switched in 2011.

Adjusted for age and pension credits, she could pay tax at 22 per cent and have $ 5,940 per month to spend to age 95.

Consider that while a family's «minuscule stock «portfolio» or pension fund interest had grown by $ 2,600 or even $ 6,100,» the family's typical «debt load for college, health insurance, day care, and credit cards had jumped by $ 12,000.»

by years of work, annuities, retirement dates, eligibility for military service, weeks of unemployment insurance or years of accumulated pension credits?»

«We would like the Department for Work and Pensions to look at ways in which they can reduce the 6 - week wait to be made and also increase the amount of information available locally so people who are moving onto Universal Credit are well informed about the process.

On the claim form for Pension Credit, a benefit which also allows three months backdating, there is a whole part dedicated to backdating.

All three of Westminster's mainstream parties support universal credit, but none of them would want to be associated with the enormous mess made of its implementation by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been ordered to publish another set of documents relating to Universal Credit after previously refusing to do so.

In December, the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee supported LITRG's call for an independent review of tax credit compliance processes following significant delays and difficulties faced by tax credit claimants trying to deal with Concentrix, the private company hired by HMRC to carry out tax credit checks on their behalf.

At the last count, 2.57 million were claiming # 5,460 billion of pensions credit, about two thirds of the 3.75 million eligible for the benefit.

Charity Help the Aged warned the figures showed the pensions credit was not helping the most vulnerable people, and called for the unclaimed money to be ring - fenced for older people.

However, Labour has pointed out that there will be much lower in - work benefit payments for new claimants put on universal credit — the system championed by the work and pensions secretary, Duncan Smith.

An interesting finding in this work is that through interaction with Universal Credit, childcare policy and automatic enrolment in workplace pensions, a higher personal allowance could well be of little benefit for many low earners — and indeed could damage future prospects in terms of their pensions.

MPs have accused the Department for Work and Pensions of using «evasive» measures to prevent parliament from finding out why there have been yet more delays to the universal credit scheme.

However, it says the efforts used to improve take - up of the pension credit should now be applied to other benefits targeted at pensioners, and a new target encompassing the help provided for housing and council tax should be introduced.

The NAO finds the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has made «real and substantial progress» since its last report in 2002, noting that # 6 billion was given out in pension credits to 2.7 million pensioner households last year - a take up rate of about 69 per cent.

The Department for Work and Pensions maintains women who miss out on a full state pension can apply for pensionsPensions maintains women who miss out on a full state pension can apply for pensionspensions credit.

For example, GDS and the Department for Work and Pensions failed to work together on Universal CredFor example, GDS and the Department for Work and Pensions failed to work together on Universal Credfor Work and Pensions failed to work together on Universal Credit.

In response to Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude's admission that the implementation of the Universal Credit system has been «pretty lamentable», the Department for Work and Pensions has told ITV News Iain Duncan Smith has «not shied away from any tough decisions» over the policy:

«As I researched the idea of promoting savings in our sector, the idea of credit union came into mind and I said that's it because it dawned on me that majority of the people don't have savings accounts, insurance cover or even pension schemes and since I became the Chairman of GHAMRO I really felt the pinch because every now and then I get calls from members asking for advance payment of their royalty to either pay school fees, settle medical bills or to even solve other financial problems then I've realized that this vacuum has to be filled because GHAMRO doesn't have a policy to pay this type of monies».

Research by the National Audit Office (NAO) finds while increasing take - up of pensions credit by ten per cent would lift up to 107,000 people out of poverty, doing the same for housing and council tax benefits would improve the lives of 130,000 people.

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.

In addition, to address the fact that just 30 per cent of women are entitled to the full state pension, Mr Hutton announced a new credit system to ensure everybody's contribution to society - including those who care for children or the elderly - counted towards their pension.

The # 110bn cost of the plan would be paid for by the abolition of pension credits and of tax relief on pension contributions.

Many of the welfare reforms and reductions are likely to prove temporary as Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is developing plans for a radical «universal credit» which will replace all out - of - work benefits over the next decade.

To his credit, Prime Minister David Cameron and his ministers have been robust in defending the reforms, saying that the changes are designed to make public sector pensions affordable for the long term and failure to reform will bankrupt the whole system, a point even many on the Labour benches recognise.