Sentences with phrase «says pension policy»

«I think a mandatory savings program makes sense,» says pension policy expert Bob Baldwin.

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During the call, Peladeau said Quebecor would review of its dividend policy after the repurchase of the minority share of Quebecor Media Inc. that's currently owned by the Caisse de depot pension fund, but he didn't provide timing.

Wiseman says the CPPIB takes no position on whether the Canada Pension Plan is sufficient given overall retirement needs or what changes may be required, but says it has the organization has a «platform» of people, relationships and assets that can be expanded if policy - makers decide that's necessary.

«First, purchase an investment - oriented life - insurance policy with funds from your qualified pension or profit - sharing plan,» says Cohen.

A Supreme Court of Canada decision that ruled the Canada Pension Plan is not a policy of insurance is a win for accident victims across the country, says a Toronto lawyer.

Studies have shown a fairly large percentage of employees are stressed about their financial situation, and worried about not having enough money to retire, said Todd Saulnier, vice-chair of the national policy committee at the Association of Canadian Pension Management (ACPM) in Halifax.

Outlining its new voting policy, the CIG said its members would also vote against executive pay packages where pay ratios are not disclosed, excessive pensions for chief executives or where financial services or pharmaceutical companies do not pay the living wage.

«For eight years, the Republican Bush / Cheney agenda allowed Wall Street to run amok, stretched our armed forces to the limit, undermined a secure retirement by allowing employers to weaken pension protections, and promoted some of the most anti-woman health policies in recent memory,» Lancman said

«Unions are striking despite generous pay and extraordinary pensions arrangements - but they need to start focusing on quality of service, productivity and jobs,» head of economics and social policy Matthew Oakley said.

Speaking today at the Policy Exchange, shadow work and pensions secretary Chris Grayling said the welfare state must act as a safety net and not a way of life.

«The Department of Work and Pensions has a long track record of misusing statistics when it comes to the benefits system, and it's clear this was a tactic to vindicate further welfare cuts,» Parkinson's UK policy advisor Donna O'Brien said.

Senator Savino, a former high ranking union official, says municipal union leaders in New York City have not yet been adequately briefed on a policy that would represent a big change for public pensions.

«As I researched the idea of promoting savings in our sector, the idea of credit union came into mind and I said that's it because it dawned on me that majority of the people don't have savings accounts, insurance cover or even pension schemes and since I became the Chairman of GHAMRO I really felt the pinch because every now and then I get calls from members asking for advance payment of their royalty to either pay school fees, settle medical bills or to even solve other financial problems then I've realized that this vacuum has to be filled because GHAMRO doesn't have a policy to pay this type of monies».

Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a conservative Albany - area think tank, said teacher pension costs as now structured «are unsustainable in the long term, in addition to being paid for on the taxpayers» dime.»

Lib Dem pensions minister Steve Webb MP has said he intends to implement the policy in full — and it was backed by a large majority of local representatives on Saturday afternoon.

Paul Cann, director of policy at Help the Aged, said: «Someone who claims pension credit over the phone will in future get council tax benefit and housing benefit as a matter of course, without the need to fill in any forms at all.

«My statement sought to do something Harry Wilson hadn't yet done: endorse the pension's existing policy divesting from energy companies that do business in Iran and Sudan,» said Jacobs.

The analysis says that if the government continued with Labour's policy, where the basic state pension rose by the highest of inflation or 2.5 per cent — not earnings — would see the pension # 127 less by 2019/20.

The Empire Center for Public Policy, a think tank that tracks public pension costs, said Silver's pension may be as high as $ 98,000 if additional factors such as his pre-Albany experience as a New York City Civil Court clerk and other service credits are included.

Steve Folkard, head of pensions and savings policy at AXA, said: «Some people have negative thoughts of retirement and it is not surprising feelings of trepidation are heightened in the current financial climate.

Responding to the Labour policy document on pension reform, Otto Thoresen, Director General, Association of British Insurers said:

Government reforms have reduced the average value of public sector pension schemes by around three per cent, from 24 per cent to 21 per cent of salary, the Pensions Policy Institute (PP) has said.

The mayors says they planned meetings with several key legislators to hope to convince them to adopt the governor's plan, though Bloomberg had harsh words for the legislature's policy on pensions over the years, which he called a «charade».

On Monday deputy Bank governor Ben Broadbent was forced to defend the bank's policies against MPs who said employers were scaling back investment and limiting wage rises in response to the growing burden of larger occupational pension scheme deficits.

In a radio interview Wednesday, DeFrancisco said he opted to take the pension money because it amounted to a «declining - term life insurance policy» for his wife if he did not.

Responding to the report published today by Policy Exchange arguing for reform of the public sector pay and pensions frameworks, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «This report appears to be another example of supporters of the Coalition Government seeking to rally support for localised pay in the face of a dearth of evidence to back up the Coalition's proposals for the abolition of national pay frameworks for public services.

Addressing the TUC Congress during the debate on Pensions, Patrick Roach, Deputy General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said this: «No one can be in any doubt that ordinary working people and families are under a sustained assault as a result of the ideologically - driven programme of the coalition government and their failed economic policy.

Sir Steve Webb, a former pensions minister who is now director of policy at Royal London, said: «The new state pension has been designed to treat men and women equally.

Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Liam Byrne will set out the controversial plans tonight, saying: «Welfare reform is one of the policy areas where Labour needs to win back trust.»

Speaking in the debate about the party's policy document, A Fresh Start for Britain, the work and pensions spokesman, Steve Webb, said talk by Clegg of «savage cuts» in the recession was needlessly gloomy.

Owen Smith, Labour's Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, said: «Nicky Morgan was either too ashamed to admit cuts to disability benefits are Tory policy, or she was signalling the start of a sharp U-turn.

Labour has to do more to explain its policies and show voters that the party is on their side, Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pensions secretary, has said.

The Commissioner for Establishments, Training and Pensions, Dr Benson Oke, at the inauguration of a three - day training with the theme, «State Revenue and The Treasury Single Account: A Win - Win Policy for Lagos State and Forensic Analysis and Fraud Detection in the Workplace,» in Ikeja, said government would empower workers to curb fraud in governance.

Liberal Democrat MP and party spokesman on work and pensions Greg Mulholland said the news showed that coalition policy was paying off.

E.J. McMahon, a senior fellow with the Empire Center for New York State Policy, said he believes the cities who participate will end up overpaying for their pension costs in the long run.

The Work and Pensions Secretary wants to force thousands off ESA but campaigners say the real problem is the failure of his welfare policies

Usman Gbajabiamila, pensions policy adviser at ATL, said: «There is some stability in it now — the changes have gone through and the scheme's a year old, and members have calmed down a bit.

In a 2011 speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Romney berated Obama for failed economic policies, saying afterward that he's «seen the failure of liberal answers before... liberal education policies fail our children today because they put pensions and privileges for the union bosses above our kids.»

Ms Blower said that Education Secretary Michael Gove should engage with the union on «education policies, on workload and accountability, teacher pay including performance related pay and his unfair pension changes».

«All of this points back to the unsustainability of the state's pension system,» said Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, an Albany - based think tank.

Nearly 90 per cent of respondents said the government's policy of rising contributions to pensions was a key reason for lack of funds.

Ultra-conservative Grover Nordquist just said that he's not worried about the national election because his party added new governors: «Our strength is state by state,» Norquist said, adding that it is there that Republicans would enact the policies — ending teacher tenure, reining in public employee pensions, promoting school choice — that would invigorate the national party from the bottom up.»

Monique Morrissey, a pension expert at the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, says there is no reason to exempt charter schools from paying unfunded liabilities that are no more the public schools» fault than they are the charters».

MIDLAND, MICH. — A Mackinac Center for Public Policy analyst applauds legislators for resuming work today to address the state's $ 29.1 billion pension problem, saying moving future school employees to defined - contribution plans is both necessary and morally right.

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The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says it looked at the potential impact of income splitting in three scenarios: on pensions, for those families with children under 18 and for all families across the board.

Older People Productive Later Into Life Than in Previous Generations As far as one policy implication, the authors say that slow and predictable changes in the retirement age, the age when one can start collecting pensions, are justified — though as recent events in France show, there will be backlash to this.

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