Sentences with phrase «pensions go to the people»

It's not progressive at all, and the highest pensions go to the people with the highest salaries.

Not exact matches

«There's a recognition by a lot of the provinces that a lot of people are going to retire with inadequate pensions and they're going to have to do something about it,» said president Ken Georgetti, adding that workers his group spoke to supported a provincial pension plan.

«Ottawa isn't really keen, I think, on having the provinces all start up their own pension plans because it starts to break up the federation a bit, it starts to create barriers to people going from one province to another looking for employment,» said Thomas Klassen, a York University political science professor who studies pensions.

Faced with the challenges of motivating people to take action on things like pension contributions, getting health insurance or going to college, Barack Obama didn't roll the dice on a Super Bowl spot.

So instead of paying a defined pension benefit as people expected, they've gone to a defined payment program (to a 401K or stock market or mutual fund).

Their plan is to destroy ALL People programs from Medicare to SS to food stamps to public education to veteran healthcare and pensions to college grants to every single welfare program and the list goes on and on.

In real life, people eat donuts, decide not to go for a run, and put off making payments into their pension fund.

As the war of words raging at the top of the Conservative party intensified over the weekend, Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, accused the prime minister of having a «low opinion of the British people» in doubting the country's ability to go it alone.

«This is not going to be painless» Sir Richard Mottram, Work & Pensions permanent secretary 2002 - 5, told Channel 4 News that it was not true that things people cared about would not be hit by cutbacks after the election.

Two of the reasons for the proliferation of the «Shadow Government» are so that the State does not appear to be the entity that acquires additional debt, and to provide State pensions for people not in the classified Civil Service who theoretically, (although much now is very fixed, going back to Mario Cuomo and continued by Pataki, Spitzer and Paterson) must face non-partisan Merit and Fitness competition for appointments and promotions.

«I'm going to do my job the way people expect me to do it; I'm going to stand up for the pension fund even when people attack it; I'm going to defend my staff when they do the right thing; and in this era when we need more transparency and accountability in state government across the board, my office is uniquely set up to do that job.

``... The elected officials, the Senate and the Assembly, should save the people of New York from this governor, who promised them he was going to freeze wages, he was going to take money from the pension.

A select committee report several months later backed Ann Abrahams» call, saying the government was guilty of «maladministration» in advising people to take money that would have gone into their second state pension and place it in the private sector.

«This wicked bedroom tax is going to rip neighbour from neighbour, force vulnerable people to food banks and loan sharks, and end up costing Britain more than it saves as tenants are forced to go homeless or move into the expensive private rented sector,» shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne said.

And it is now close to inconceivable that May's plans to means test the winter fuel allowance, to end the triple lock on pension rises and to force all older people to pay for their social care will now go ahead.

The announcement comes in response to a select committee report this summer which said the government was guilty of «maladministration» in advising people to take money that would have gone to their second state pension and place it in the private sector.

Let me say this to the unions: to go on strike in economic times like this, when you're being offered pensions far more generous than most other people could ever afford, will hit growth, will cost jobs.

Going back to the issue of the strikes, YouGov asked how well people thought David Cameron and the government had handled the issue of public sector pensions and negotiations — only 23 % though he had handled them well, with 59 % thinking it had been done badly.

«There are those who contest that the UK has historically set far too much store by home - ownership and that we should be unconcerned that the average age of the first - time buyer is approaching forty but taken together, this trend, the spread of means - tested benefits, the regime for long term care, the damage done to private pension provision by one of Gordon Brown's earliest misjudgements, compounded by the current squeeze on household finances which has seen over a million people forced to abandon contributions to their pension funds, all amount to a massive turn away from a culture of property ownership with the responsibility and independence that goes with it.»

Moreover, as with defending job security as a cheaper way to attract decent teachers, defined - benefit pension plans have big downsides with hidden costs: They make it unappealing for a talented person to work as a teacher for just part of a career, make it hard for teachers to move around, offer huge bonuses to older teachers who don't add any special value, etc. (And this is all viewing education in isolation — committing future taxpayers to pay for pensions teachers are earning now is going to mean spending less on other priorities in the future.

So keep noses out of everything all together do you think they a clue on pensions or unemployment NO THEY DO N'T as long as they have multi cars can go out to fancy restaurants (on expenses) & give themselves nice fat salary that is as far as their knowledge goes «How to con the people & make them think it is for their own good»

What people don't seem to understand is the fact that we are probably going to have to go to a gold standard which will increase the price of gold 10 times and your 401k investment and pension will be no longer.

«Most people are focusing on the trusts, but for many Canadians, pension splitting is going to have a much bigger impact.»

Lots of people (especially in the press) complain that we'd all be a lot better off if companies would just go back to giving workers check - a-month retirement pensions instead of 401 (k) plans.

Might as well call all government pension handouts «tax refunds» a well if you're going to pretend these people milking this arrangement aren't leaners.

«There's a recognition by a lot of the provinces that a lot of people are going to retire with inadequate pensions and they're going to have to do something about it,» said president Ken Georgetti, adding that workers his group spoke to supported a provincial pension plan.

«Ottawa isn't really keen, I think, on having the provinces all start up their own pension plans because it starts to break up the federation a bit, it starts to create barriers to people going from one province to another looking for employment,» said Thomas Klassen, a York University political science professor who studies pensions.

«For the lower - income people who earn $ 27,500 [or less], the benefit of having a higher CPP contribution is outweighed by the fact that they would have less income available to them in their working years, and also that the way clawbacks work, that their overall pension income, retirement income will not go up significantly enough to compensate for the losses that they pay,» says Swedlove.

A: You know, it's young people who are saying to me, «Thank you for doing this,» because they understand that, in the four, five, six or seven different jobs they're going to have over the period of their working lives, they're pretty sure most of those jobs are not going to have a workplace pension attached to them.

I plan on making it to over 150, so the SSA, and my little defined benefit pension plan people, are going to hate me big time!

It's important to note that many people think that their pension and profit sharing benefits are going to remain separate simply because they were individually earned.

Some people don't like to include these because they can change drastically, but items like current savings, IRAs and 401 (k) s, pension or social security benefits (if not joint), and other valuables could go against the total you came up with.

If the person dies within that period then the nominee is going to get the pension facility until the term is complete.

«Data is being used without people's permission, and that's going to affect the brand, and that's a brand I've invested close to $ 1 billion of people's money in underlying their pensions,» Stringer said.

When we get paid, when we get a job offer, when we go on a training scheme, when we have a telephone interview, and even when we retire and start living off our pension, it's all down to the people who work in recruitment and human resources.