The Tory rebel, who resigned as work and
pensions minister over the ex-Chancellor's budget, is speaking out publicly against the planned cut to Universal Credit, which he says will cost three million people more than # 1,000 a year each.
Not exact matches
Finance
Minister Jim Flaherty is describing an expanded Canada
Pension Plan as a «payroll tax,» but says he can see how such a move would benefit Canadians
over the long term.
The PCS union said
ministers had fixed the terms of negotiation
over public sector
pensions in a way which would seriously undermine the possibility of an agreement being reached.
The prime
minister's spokesman has been on the defensive when it comes to unions» threat of further strike action
over public sector
pensions.
As part of the ongoing talks
over wider cuts to public sector
pensions,
ministers have since ruled out any negotiations on the issue.
But
ministers, currently engaged in a standoff with union officials
over public sector
pension changes, are unlikely to be willing to make major concessions.
The public uproar
over the issue heightened Wednesday following an assertion by the Finance
Minister Seth Terkper that allowances and
pensions are being taxed under the new income tax law, Act 896, 2015, because they are all forms of income no matter how they are earned.
Two former
pensions ministers, Liberal Democrat Steve Webb and his Conservative successor Ros Altmann (pictured above), today squared up
over whether the government should keep the triple lock.
Even if the recovery had been progressing as well as
ministers might have hoped, we would still have seen the clashes
over public sector
pensions, tuition fees and cuts to public services - police, schools, the NHS - currently driving the government's popularity downwards.
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.
Shadow
Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude has pressed the Prime
Minister over the rather fraught issue of Lord Falconer's
pension.
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:
From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting
over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the
Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers
Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole
over 6billion naira
pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers
pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the
Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the
Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the
Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the
Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.
Speaking after today's (27) meeting with
ministers over the government's plans to cut public sector
pensions, Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka said.
Claim: The shadow work and
pensions minister - who owns 24 houses - claimed
over # 100,000 in allowances, the Daily Telegraph said.
More... Council sacks the # 200,000 superhead who suspended seven pupils in first two days The bloated council where six bosses earn more than the Prime
Minister Unions are already threatening to strike
over plans to make members contribute more towards
pensions.
Following the resignation from the cabinet of Iain Duncan Smith
over disability benefit cuts, Mr Crabb, the first Conservative cabinet
minister for a century to have a beard, was promoted to work and
pensions secretary.
«People should take some reassurance from our prime
minister, who I think is standing pretty much foursquare in the middle of public opinion: we don't what to see any more powers ceded
over there, but we want to see some powers back,» the work and
pensions secretary added.
After the energy draining high of recent days Brown will return to humdrum realities, the prospect of a budget later this month with no spare cash to spend, MPs» expenses, the row
over what his City
Minister Lord Myners knew about Sir Fred Goodwin's
pension.
Both teachers» unions are in dispute with
ministers over pay,
pensions and workload.
According to a Fraser Institute analysis, the increase in
pension premiums, spread out
over several years, «will more than wipe out the benefits» of the Trudeau government's key tax talking point, the famous middle - class income - tax cut that Finance
Minister Bill Morneau keeps referring to as background justification for tightening tax rules for private corporations and small - businesses.
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Over the past two years, Norges Bank, following upon its investment mandates from the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) and the
Minister of Finance, divested the Norwegian Government
Pension Fund Global (GPFG)'s of its holdings in at least 49 companies with substantial operations related to mining and burning of coal.
In preparing my advice, I discovered the little known
Pension and Yeomanry Pay Act 1884 under which the AFPS 75 was established and pored
over numerous public sector rules, and I'm told that the advice eventually found its way on to the prime
minister's desk.