Sentences with word «pensioner»

Like Stelco and Nortel before it, thousands of pensioners of Sears Canada are experiencing firsthand what happens to corporate Defined Benefit pension plans when a business fails.

[5] The Labour party said they were the only party that had the experience to run the council and pledged to remove charges for pensioners for pest control.

He said, «Its not that we don't want to pay but we don't have such financial capacity to pay that is why we say FG which has the capacity should help to raise bond not to give to the states but to settle the gratuity obligations to the categories of pensioners who left the system because they were not ready to be part of the Contributory Pension Scheme.

Claire Perry uses her maiden speech to highlight rural poverty as George Hollingbery and Hariett Baldwin raise the plight of pensioners in poverty

Now Burstow is calling for capping winter fuel payments for pensioners with an annual income of over # 100,000.

It could become a major political controversy given the pledges on pensioner benefits Cameron made during the election campaign.

He said the state government was owing workers on Grade Level 08 and above as well as pensioner for 18 months half salaries.

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The Work and Pensions Secretary has urged wealthy pensioners who do not need to receive benefits to volunteer to hand back the money to the government.

In the letter dated 8 September 2017 and signed by SERAP deputy director Timothy Adewale, the organization expressed «concern about the treatment of the situation of Edo pensioners from a «humanitarian» and «charity» perspective.

Compression socks used to be associated with the worn - out, brown hosiery worn by pensioners in the movies.

It was her admission that Labour will review their policy on pensioner benefits ahead of the next election.

but to win it we need reinforcements but the club is being run like a group of old pensioners with old school values and overcomplicated economics that no one cares about apart from them!!

Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project has issued a 14 - day ultimatum to Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State asking him to pay pensioners in the state their outstanding entitlements or face legal action.

The report said a scheme like Help to Buy, which helps younger people get on the housing ladder, could help pensioners at the other end of their lives.

Expanding his original adaptation of Deborah Moggach's novel about financially challenged British pensioners who have «outsourced» their remaining years, Ol Parker's segmented screenplay juggles so many diverse characters, contrived storylines and picturesque glimpses into colorful Indian culture that sometimes it's hard to keep track.

The state government also contributes money for use in funding payments as pensioners live longer and the average worker salary increases.

If pensioners in work did pay national insurance, it could be used to provide extra funding for the NHS, something the older generations would be more likely to benefit from.

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), ACORN Canada (ACORN) and National Pensioners Federation (NPF) today reacted negatively to the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) rejection of their review of the CRTC's previous decision to deny creating a fund to ensure all Canadians, including lower - income Canadians, have equal access to broadband and other telecommunications services.

He accused Gordon Brown of «raising the hopes» of many pensioners over proposals for free personal care that would only help a «fraction» of people.

«These figures show in the starkest possible terms that Gordon Brown's flagship policy on pensioner poverty is failing to help many of the most vulnerable older people,» said spokeswoman Anna Pearson.

The rest tend to be fairly sedate pensioners out for a little match play.

Nick Clegg stands up and takes a far more appropriate stance, by asking what Brown is doing to help pensioners with fuel payments throughout the winter.

What can we do to win over pensioners?

Ed Miliband, you'll remember, said last week that the current set - up, by which wealthy pensioners receive benefits such as Winter Fuel Allowance and free TV licences, «needs to be looked at» — before his party's spokespeople swarmed out to reassure folk that no decisions had yet been made, that their leader didn't like the idea of means - testing, etc, etc..

Owen Paterson stunned even hard nosed Tories with his heartless plan to make pensioners do gruelling crop picking on the cheap, David Laws revealed in his memoir.

Council tax bills have more than doubled since Labour came to power, and the poorest pensioners pay four times as high a percentage of their income than the richest working people.

«But this tax is now going to be paid by everybody in the country, including pensioners who of course don't benefit from the increase in the income tax threshold.»

Moreover, 49 % of all fuel poor households receive no Winter Fuel Payment, as they are not pensioner households.

«For if you think you can stop the world's climate from changing by making pensioner's pay more for their energy, building wind farms and mandating Renewable Energy Targets — then you are worse than deluded.

«With more pensioners in poverty under the Conservatives, it is clear that a Labour Government is necessary to provide a secure and dignified retirement for the many who have contributed all their lives.

Why should rich pensioners get free television licences and winter fuel payments?

On Samsø, the preaching is finding converts: About 45 percent of low - income pensioner households have invested in energy saving.

And it's going to give pensioners more peace of mind, because they will have more clarity about what they're going to get — and they can save for the future with greater confidence.

The Department for Work and Pensions has said pensioners claiming housing benefit now will not be affected by the Government's «bedroom tax».

YouGov also asked a series of questions about public sector pensions — 74 % of people thought that public sector pensioners got a better deal than those who worked in the private sector and 60 % of those thought they did not deserve this (predictably there was a huge difference between public and private sector workers on this question — 55 % of public sector workers thought that, yes, they did deserve better pensions than the private sector).

The «granny tax» — an unfair policy leaving pensioners paying more while the highest earners pay less.

«SERAP has been fully briefed by Edo pensioners both at local government and state levels about their plight and continuing denial of their human rights to dignity, equality and non-discrimination by your government.»

I hear all the time about pensioners struggling to help their children put down deposits on first homes, after a multi-decade property boom that has seen houses in some areas increase in value one hundredfold in just 40 years, lifting even modest family homes way out of the reach of those on ordinary incomes.

Some provinces have safeguards to protect pensioners when plans are wound up with deficits: in Ontario, for instance, the Pension Benefits Guarantee Fund would step in.

But the poll contained similar criticisms of the chancellor's Budget last week, with 49 % saying the scrapping of pensioner tax allowance was unfair and 53 % saying the reduction of the top rate of tax to 45 % would do «nothing» to help the economy.

Some companies may have stricter criteria for pensioners like you.

There are over five lakh pensioners aged 75 years or more in India, for SBI alone.

Low and middle earners faced cuts in tax credits and child benefit while pensioners faced a tax increase.

A welfare state that looks after pensioners, not the idle.

He wanted to be in charge of liaison with the broadcasters — he believes he might have prevented the disastrous sequence of events that led to Brown being miced up as he denounced a Rochdale pensioner as a bigot.