Sentences with phrase «people of working age»

«We are moving into an era where people of working age are going to be increasingly scarce; that should put upward pressure on wages going forward,» he said.

Term insurance is often ideal for younger people of working age, during the time that they are raising children and acting as the family's primary provider.

Even so, the number of people of working age supporting each retiree over 65 is falling.

Retinal screening Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in people of working age in the UK.

All told, there are 91.5 million people of working age who are not working.

The retirement of the baby boomers over the next several decades will mean astronomic increases in costs, notably for health care, with relatively fewer people of working age to pay them.

«You are aware that I believe the cuts would have been even fairer to younger families and people of working age if we had been willing to reduce some of the benefits given to better - off pensioners but I have attempted to work within the constraints that you and the Chancellor set.

«This rise in the number of people unemployed at a time when the economy is recovering from the bankers recession is linked to not filling vacancies right across the public sector and to people of working age volunteering for redundancy being added to the dole queues.

An increasing number of people of working age (aged 25 - 65) die from accidental deaths from drug misuse or overdose, with accidental prescription drug overdoses rising.

They found that with no migration, Europe's population is set to fall 17 per cent by 2050 — with a 30 per cent decrease in people of working age.

It may shock many readers to learn that more than # 13 billion of taxpayer's money is spent on sickness and incapacity benefits for people of working age, as pointed out by minister for disabled people Mike Penning this week.

That has a huge financial cost to the UK, which needs an influx of people of working age to pay for our aging population and deliver the public services they rely on.

Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows 74.7 per cent of people of working age are in jobs, up 0.2 per cent on the quarter but down 0.1 per cent on the year.

Of the 2.6 million people of working age in social housing, 1.4 million are not in work - more than twice the national average.

The long run affordability of the welfare state depends above all else on a broad tax base generated by full employment of people of working age, which in turn is dependent on collective services for caring for children, the disabled and the elderly, enabling men and women to work as they want.

Freezing benefits paid to people of working age for two years was the headline announcement of George Osborne's speech to his party conference.

The Office for National Statistics also revealed that more than one in five people of working age is now classed as economically inactive.

An increasing number of people of working age (aged 25 - 65) die from accidental deaths from drug misuse or overdose, with accidental prescription drug overdoses rising.