Sentences with phrase «pensioners out»

And when you think of all we as a country invested over that period — in restoring the NHS, rebuilding schools, taking hundreds of thousands of pensioners out of poverty, ditto children — keeping the National Debt below the level they inherited from the Conservatives was a fantastic achievement.

«Given that the term «fuel poverty» does not seem to have been used once in yesterday's Budget statement, can the Secretary of State confirm that Warm Front will be sufficient to address Age Concern's assessment of the Budget that its failure to tackle fuel poverty will continue to leave more pensioners out in the cold?

We've already lifted 900 thousand pensioners out of poverty — and in the next five years will restore the earnings link for the basic state pension.

«This report confirms that this government has become obsessed with meeting centrally set targets at the expense of delivering the benefits and services which will do most to lift pensioners out of poverty,» said shadow work and pension secretary Philip Hammond.

«Look what happens when you get it right: the 11 years of Labour government between 1997 and 2008... A completely unbroken period of economic growth; we made the economy work like never before or since, and we lifted half a million children out of poverty; and lifted a million pensioners out of poverty.

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

Not exact matches

Pierlot wrote a paper for the CD Howe Institute in 2011 showing that a person with a salary of $ 75,000 at the end of a 35 - year career would accumulate more than $ 1.4 million in savings through a defined - benefit plan (wherein the pensioner is paid a set income based on past earnings and years of service, mostly confined to the public sector these days) compared to $ 674,711 for someone with no pension but a maxed - out Registered Retirement Savings Plan.

The target of the pensioners complaint is approximately $ 2.9 billion in special dividends paid out to Sears Canada's shareholders between 2005 and 2013 despite the company's failing business.

As the number of pensioners swells at a breakneck pace, funds will soon find themselves paying out more than they are taking in.

It would rather wipe out pensioners, consumers, workers, industrial companies and foreign investors.

They are more willing to bail out the big financial institutions than to bail out savers, pensioners, Social Security recipients and other small fry.

The Pensioners drew the match 1 - 1 as Diego Costa's late equaliser cancelled out Jesse Lingard's stunning opener, but their point came at a cost, with Zouma ruled out for the rest of the season.

Salah looks likely to become another of the young players farmed out by Stamford Bridge, before being sold at a profit having not truly made a mark on the Pensioners» first team.

The Dutch coach has overseen a fine run of results, cumulating in a 1 - 0 victory over Arsenal on Sunday, but the machinations continue at Stamford Bridge as the Pensioners seek out a long - term successor for Mourinho, and look to identify the ideal candidate to replace Hiddink at the season's end.

Arteta, looks exactly what he is — a pensioner who for some reason was given a contract extension (out of pity I suppose, as usual).

Wait until the deadline day comes and they have a possee of police and bailiffs on the land throeing out the old and sick pensioners with nowhere to go.

The pair watched on from the stands as PSG beat FC Lorient at the Parc des Princes on Friday evening, and while ex-Chelsea man David Luiz featured for half against Girondins de Bordeaux last Sunday, Marquinos has been out of action since the memorable Champions League triumph against the Pensioners at Stamford Bridge.

The Pensioners arguably ran out of steam in their efforts to challenge in four competitions in 2014/15 and this is something the Portuguese coach may look to remedy as the West Londoners look to retain their title.

Well Kroenke isn't that moralistic — subscription slaughter channels, causing pensioners to commit suicide as he throws them out of homes they've been in for over 50 years etc., is he really better than Usmanov?

The Pensioners have taken just five points out of a possible 15 against West Brom in the last few meetings, winning just one of their last five.

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

By our calculations, Osun state pensioners alone got at least, N1, 539,227,442.75 out of the N14.2 billion paid to active and passive workers in the last two weeks as arrears of 4 months salaries and pensions excluding what the local government pensioners were paid for the same period.»

The government's determination to roll out pension credits has been at the expense of other measures that could better tackle pensioner poverty, a new report warns.

Pensioners and those on benefits will also suffer, as any future rises in inflation will wipe out any increase in payments, as last month's CPI inflation figure is used by the government to calculate payment increases.

The comfort factor requires a counter-factual belief that the pain of cuts can be borne wholly by out - groups such as immigrants, tattoo'd welfare claimants (but not pensioners) and bankers.

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.

Seven out of ten pensioners entitled to help with their housing costs but who are not claiming it are living in poverty, the spending watchdog warns.

«Government has been sincere with the welfare of pensioners by ensuring that they were not left out of monthly payment of pension.

Adelugba held that all pensioners have been paid their pension up to May, 2017 in line with the approved schedules, citing a reflection of the Memorandum of Understanding / Agreement signed by both government and Labour of which NUP was not left out.

«Gordon Brown's betrayal of pensioners in the 1997 budget was carried out not only against Civil Service advice but even against the will of the Prime Minister.

Reaching out to the grey vote, Lucas said pensioner poverty — with one in every four living in poverty — was «a scandal».

The Conservative Party manifesto launched an all - out attack on pensioner incomes, with three major new burdens placed on older people:

It is now set out in the Government's own figures that pensioner poverty in this country is at its lowest level for 30 years.»

Research from the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) suggests that pensioners living in poverty could be helped off the breadline if they downsize their home or take out a form of equity release scheme.

«He got it wrong and he should apologise to all those pensioners who are now out of pocket,» said economic spokesman Vincent Cable.

«2.5 million more jobs, economy is stronger, hundreds of thousands kids and pensioners lifted out of poverty, massively improved school results,» he said as an example.

Every day, our members pay out # 155 million in benefits to pensioners and long - term savers as well as # 58 million in general insurance claims.

The groups could perform some of the duties carried out by care professionals such as washing, feeding and providing support to pensioners, many of whom suffer neglect in this country, Norman Lamb told the Daily Telegraph.

Pensioners drop dead in long queues while waiting for meagre hand - outs that never come».

And they may soon be joined by a Labour Party that wants wealthy pensioners to lose out on similar grounds, but that is opposed to the child benefit cuts.

A 2016 report by energy research firm Corporate Knights estimated that by sticking with fossil, rather than clean, fuels, New York pensioners missed out on roughly $ 5.3 billion in added earnings in 2015.

Osborne is right to point out that means - testing pensioner benefits would not raise the sums that many suggest.

Janice Small, a press and marketing consultant and member of the candidates list, says foreign energy companies such as EDF are making money out of British consumers and pensioners whilst getting subsidies from the French Government.

Osborne refused to rule out the withdrawal of benefits from some pensioners, repeatedly stating that he was «not writing the Conservative manifesto today», but offered an important indication of his priorities.

Throughout the last election, the Labour Party put out numerous leaflets which were designed to scare the wits out of pensioners, mothers and cancer sufferers.

Conservative leader Michael Howard today pledged to «respect and protect» UK pensioners, who he claimed had been «airbrushed» out of New Labour's vision of Britain.

Aregbesola also appealed to the leadership of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) to use the instrumentality of the agency to work out financial arrangements that will support the states at settling the gratuity of pensioners.

But, while poverty among children and pensioners has been reduced, it has risen among adults without children, especially those on out - of - work benefits.

And he criticised Mr Brown for becoming out of touch with the concerns of voters, as epitomised by the former Prime Minister's disastrous election encounter with Rochdale pensioner Gillian Duffy, whom he branded a «bigoted woman» for raising legitimate concerns about immigration.

Everyone receiving care services at home should get them free, paid for out of general taxation, and not just those with the greatest needs covered by today's announcement, said Dot Gibson, general secretary of the National Pensioners Convention.