Sentences with phrase «people living on benefits»

Unsecured loans offered exclusively to people living on benefits are available.

«The problem of some people living on benefits when they are able to work» (along with «Britain's overall level of debt») is one of the few things that many people think would be worse today had Labour won in 2010.

Not exact matches

«The fact that solitude enables people to daydream and reflect on their lives also means that it's associated with self - transformation, as psychologists Christopher Long and James Averill note in their theoretical paper «Solitude: An Exploration of Benefits of Being Alone» (paywall),»» Cooper points out.

Something as simple as a feed of text and images has provided us with an easier way to achieve the benefits that the Wright Brothers» life - threatening experiments have: an on - demand way to expose ourselves to new ideas, meet new people and better maintain relationships with friends and family.

[But] for people who have it, student loan debt is something that weighs on them very heavily and prevents them from moving onto other life milestones, so this is a really impactful benefit that employers can offer.»

If fewer than 100 people are covered by a pension plan, benefits plan (including medical, dental, life - insurance, scholarship, and disability), or fringe benefit, file Form 5500 C / R annually, listing details on membership, assets, and so on.

With assets under administration of $ 5.2 trillion, including managed assets of $ 2.1 trillion as of April 30, 2015, we focus on meeting the unique needs of a diverse set of customers: helping more than 24 million people invest their own life savings, nearly 20,000 businesses manage employee benefit programs, as well as providing nearly 10,000 advisory firms with technology solutions to invest their own clients» money.

With assets under administration of $ 6.2 trillion, including managed assets of $ 2.3 trillion as of June 30, 2017, we focus on meeting the unique needs of a diverse set of customers: helping more than 24 million people invest their own life savings, nearly 20,000 businesses manage employee benefit programs, as well as providing nearly 10,000 advisory firms with technology solutions to invest their own clients» money.

With assets under administration of $ 6.9 trillion, including managed assets of $ 2.5 trillion as of March 31, 2018, we focus on meeting the unique needs of a diverse set of customers: helping more than 27 million people invest their own life savings, 23,000 businesses manage employee benefit programs, as well as providing more than 12,500 financial advisory firms with investment and technology solutions to invest their own clients» money.

With assets under administration of $ 6.9 trillion, including managed assets of $ 2.5 trillion as of February 28, 2018, we focus on meeting the unique needs of a diverse set of customers: helping more than 27 million people invest their own life savings, 23,000 businesses manage employee benefit programs, as well as providing more than 12,500 financial advisory firms with investment and technology solutions to invest their own clients» money.

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With assets under administration of $ 6.2 trillion, including managed assets of $ 2.2 trillion as of May 31, 2017, we focus on meeting the unique needs of a diverse set of customers: helping more than 26 million people invest their own life savings, nearly 23,000 businesses manage employee benefit programs, as well as providing nearly 12,500 advisory firms with technology solutions to invest their own clients» money.

In social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.

«Though we already pay # 11 billion a year to subsidise a low - wage economy because employers are not paying people enough to live on, volunteers up and down the country are providing a further # 30 million a year in «free» labour to ensure that our fellow citizens in low paid work, on zero hour contracts, or relying on a broken benefits system have enough to eat.

So, while it may be problematic to make too much of the distinction between Scripture and Christ, I think that evangelicalism will benefit from a reminder that our faith centers around the living person of Jesus Christ — the World Made Flesh — not on the sacred texts that point to him.

Second, my major ministry, the San Francisco Network Ministries, is among people long ago abandoned by the church — the frail elderly poor, the homeless, addicts and alcoholics, illiterates, people with AID»S / ARC who are living in poverty, prostitutes and other victims of our culture's «sex industry,» and people with various mental and physical disabilities struggling to live on meager benefit payments.

In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.

The book implied that because they had lived there on the Silk Road, the trade routes between China, India and Europe and Africa... they had become aware of the similarities of the religious ideas that passed back and forth along the trade routes and used that knowledge to the benefit of their people.

But as we survey the world situation today, the general feeling is that along with many benefits, many of the promises of technology stand betrayed and there is evidence of a lot of technology having become instruments of exploitation of peoples, destruction of cultures and dehumanization of persons and pose threat of destruction not only to the whole humanity through nuclear war but also to the whole community of life on the earth through the destruction of its ecological basis.

«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife, as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.

AMAG is a biopharmaceutical company focused on bringing therapeutics to market that provide clear benefits and help improve people's lives.

So many people will say «I don't want the government to tell me what I can and can not do» and «I don't want my tax dollars to be spent on things that don't directly benefit me» when it comes to all aspects of their lives.

The main benefit is that most people live close to a Wal - Mart or Target and can pick them up, whereas you would have to order (and possibly pay shipping) on flats.

Arguments in favor of circumcision benefits indicate they outweigh the risks, have no substantial effects on sexual function, they are low in complications when done properly by an experienced person, and is best performed in the neonatal period of life.

Most people don't voluntarily choose a life on benefits.

People on benefits shouldn't have more to live on than someone who is at work for 40 hours a week.

She added: «Almost two million older people struggle on the breadline in a life of poverty, but still government ministers trumpet a benefit scheme which simply isn't getting help to those who need it most.»

According to the Minister, the Federal Government through the Ministry wants to pay attention to and resolve as many of such issues as possible in order to ensure that important life impacting projects are delivered on time for the benefit of the people.

Ministers at the DWP repeatedly claimed that the majority of people on disability living allowance (DLA) were given benefits for life without any supporting medical evidence.

It means never writing off people who can work and consigning them to a life on benefits, but giving them the chance to go out and earn a living and to enjoy the dignity that comes with a job well done.

People who are unable to find work must frequently rely on benefits for income: if they have financial or family commitments, this can make life extremely difficult.

«Being able to support this organization and keep it running has a real financial benefit to the city, not to mention quality of life benefits for the people who live on a street next to a vacant building,» Wright said.

But when there are still millions of people in this country living in poverty, and when the age of austerity means we must focus on the real priorities can we honestly say it's right for people earning over # 50,000 a year to get state benefits in the form of tax credits?

For example, many people in Australia / Canada / Europe take offense at the idea of large tracts of muslims / minorities living on welfare in their segregated «muslim» ghettos, and call for a limitation of muslim migration and a reduction of welfare benefits.

What the public is really desperate to hear from Labour is that it will take a stand against at least the worst of the Tory attacks on people's living standards, e.g. reverse the iniquitous bedroom tax and call a halt to the callous stripping of seriously disabled people of their benefits on the utterly spurious grounds under the Atos farcical assessments that they are fit for work.

«Under the current rules a property that has been a person's private residence in the past, even though they may not be living in the property at the time they sell it, and where they are claiming PPR on another property at the same time, can benefit from the last three years being tax free.

«Our reforms will mean that people are always financially better off in work; people will no longer be trapped in a life on benefits.»

A range of other changes are also being implemented which are set to make it far more difficult for people on housing benefit to afford to live in central London.

While there are undoubtedly many projects funded with UK aid that bring genuine and much - needed benefit to people living on the lowest incomes in the world, there's also a trend in ones that actually help tilt an already uneven playing field further in favour of the rich, entrenching inequality and corporate power.

Our attack on disability benefit is forcing sick people to live their remaining days in poverty and fear.

Reacting to his charge, the stakeholders expressed appreciation to the Special Adviser for taking the time out to share vital information on what Ekiti state can benefit from the President Muhammadu Buhari - led administration and his promise of support to chase out the PDP - led administration in the state that is making the lives of the people difficult and which obviously has made Ekiti worse than it was when they took over in 2014.

Our president was speaking on European soil where the average young person gets benefits far in excess of what any Nigerian youth could imagine, except those of Buhari's generation who got state sponsored education and jobs, and have lived on the Nigerian state since the early 1960s!

Peter Kellner for YouGov: Being soft on older people's benefits remains popular — partly because workers worry their own living standards as pensioners

Be careful — look at this YouGov poll which shows a majority of people would support renationalisation of the utilities, increasing the minimum wage to # 10 and the top rate of tax to 60 %... but also a total ban on immigration and benefits for anyone who turns down a job, making life mean life with no parole in prison sentences and stopping all international aid.

Ben Redsell: Morrison's voters are Labour voters because they tend to be pile it high sell it cheap merchants and they are prone to be aimed at those people who are living entirely on benefits.

The Guardian became outraged when Iain Duncan Smith suggested that it was a «sin» that society had negligently abandonned 4.5 million people to live permanently on out - of work benefits instead of find ways to get them re-integrated into working life.

«Since 2015, I and my team have responded to 20,000 requests for help and support, while people on low incomes have seen their quality of life get dramatically worse with the roll out of universal credit and benefit cuts.»

Contradicting the myth that benefits are solely for people out of work, Mr Draper goes on to point out that the majority of those on housing benefit work for a living.

Londoners living in private rented homes will save hundreds of pounds a year, as well has benefiting from minimum standards for accommodation, that starts to root out the appalling conditions in which people on low incomes are forced to live.

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said that Labour should «never be trusted» with people's money again, [95] while Labour was also accused of electioneering after Darling announced a 1.5 percent rise in Child Benefit and Disability Living Allowance from April 2010 — weeks ahead of an expected election — but made no comment on whether the rise could be sustained after April 2011.