Sentences with phrase «year benefits freeze»

A four - year benefits freeze.

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We have frozen post-secondary tuition for two years, funded teachers and nurses that the PCs were going to cut, and created the Alberta Child Benefit Plan for low - income families, which is a $ 340 - million investment in new direct help to families who need it most.

The Salvation Army has urged the Government to end the freeze on benefit payments, which the Christian group said is «plunging more families into poverty every year».

Bishop of Gloucester, Rt Rev Rachel Treweek (above), said: «We have heard a lot about how earnings are not keeping up with inflation, but there is an urgency to recognise that low income working families are taking a double hit due to the four - year freeze in child tax credits and other benefits.

Labour's press office takes the same line: «Labour will use our # 10 billion pot [over five years] to reduce the impact on households with the lowest incomes by ending the benefits freeze.»

«They are themselves in a two - year pay freeze, teachers and lecturers are facing redundancy, will lose child benefits and other benefits, are paying more VAT, their children stand to lose educational maintenance allowances and their children will also have to pay higher tuition fees to go to university.»

The two - year working - age benefits freeze takes # 3.2 bn a year off the welfare bill by 2017 - 18, the first step of the chancellor's commitment to wipe # 12bn more from the annual welfare bill.

The freeze will hit the poorest third in society the hardest and cause working families with children lose as much as # 490 a year in child benefit and tax credits.

The plan means a two - year freeze on benefits and tax credits for about 10m households, many of whom have already borne the brunt of austerity.

Those in receipt of working - age benefits including - child benefit, child tax credit, income support, universal credit and jobseekers» allowance - have more reason than most to worry about inflation as all of these have just been frozen for four years, along with local housing allowances which determine housing benefit rates.

The squeezed middle, the working poor (6.5 million in their households today) and the jobless are afflicted by pay freezes and pay cuts, energy bill hikes, accelerated private rent increases, a swelling housing benefit budget that subsidises rich landlords but not the tenants, waiting lists for a home swollen by the bedroom tax and only half the houses needed being built, nearly a million of the jobless sanctioned last year and deprived of all their unemployment benefit for 4 or 13 weeks for trivial infringements, the seriously disabled suffering big benefit cuts for not getting jobs they manifestly can't do, to name but some.

«But we've also said we're going to freeze public sector pay for a year, we've said we are going to ask people to retire a year later from 2016, we've identified some benefits like the child trust fund that we won't go on paying to better - off families.

The Financial Times suggested that in order to find additional cuts of # 30 - 40bn, the incoming government might have to cut public sector pay by 5 per cent, freeze benefits for a year, means - test child benefit, abolish winter fuel payments, and cut free TV licences and bus passes.

But many of the cuts announced in earlier years by former chancellor George Osborne, including a four - year freeze on many in - work benefits and reductions in the universal credit, are yet to bite.

The two - year proposed freeze on property taxes unveiled by Cuomo's tax reduction task force this week would require municipalities to stay within their mandated 2 - percent spending increase, and in the second year the benefit would apply only to municipalities demonstrating «meaningful, concrete steps» toward permanent savings through consolidations and mergers.

Child benefit will be frozen for the next three years, the chancellor announced in his Budget today.

The government also claims that its freeze on teachers» salaries over the next two years, which caused outrage amongst unions, «means schools are benefiting from a lower level of inflation.»

The chancellor brazenly repeated the phrase «we're all in this together» as he unveiled plans to freeze working age benefits for two years but continue to protect high earners and pensioners.

Child benefits will be frozen for three years and tax credits will be slashed for those earning over # 40,000 a year.

Next year, many council tax payers in England could benefit from a one - year freeze worth an average of about # 35 for every household.

Child benefit frozen for three years Benefits, tax credits and public sector pensions rise by consumer prices index rather than retail price index (which rises faster)

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne introduces a raft of cuts to welfare spending in yesterday's emergency budget, including the capping of housing allowances and freezing of child benefits, in a bid to save # 11bn over the next four years.

Child benefits Child benefits will be frozen for the next three years and will be removed from families earning more than # 40,000.

At present both are frozen year - on - year, but increasing them would help those on the lowest incomes who see no benefit from any increase in the personal allowance.

«Many millions of people in the private sector have in the last couple of years seen their pay frozen, their hours reduced, and their pension benefits restricted,» George Osborne told the Commons.

- Child benefits to be frozen for three years.

3 years child benefit will remain frozen 3 sips of water drunk by George Osborne during his budget speech 2 Liberal Democrats seen flanking the chancellor on the main camera angle 2 year pay freeze for public sector workers earning over # 21,000.

This includes 3 million families who lose only from the freezes to child benefit, at an average of about # 75 per year.

Thirteen million families will on average lose # 260 each year because of the freeze on working - age benefits, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

The prime minister made no mention of chancellor George Osborne's pledge on Monday to freeze working age benefits for two years, but said the plan to eradicate the deficit by 2017 - 18 through a further # 25bn of public spending cuts was doable, adding it represents only 3 % of government annual spend.

«When we're talking about cuts of this scale, over this short a timescale, we're inevitably going to be talking about job losses, which will mean rising unemployment, increased benefit payments, reduced tax revenue and a real risk of a double - dip recession,» she said The government expects to save up to # 120m this year by freezing recruitment across the board in government departments, agencies, and quangos.

The shake - up will see tax credits reduced for middle income families, child benefit frozen for three years and the introduction of a new medical assessment from 2013 for people claiming Disability Living Allowance.

These public sector workers claim that they are not seeing any benefit from a recovering economy and that the pay freeze and 1 % cap on a rise which they've seen in the last four years, has left them # 4,000 worse off than in 2010.

Resolution's chief economist Matthew Whittaker suggests the best way of targeting these households would be to undo planned cuts to universal credit set in motion by Hammond's predecessor George Osborne and to suspend the four - year cash freeze in working age benefits.

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The Independent Financial Review Panel, which was formed by former Superintendent Ramon Cortines, recommended two years ago that the district renegotiate its healthcare benefits agreement and freeze all healthcare spending for five years.

The Senate's plan seems to acknowledge that teachers have suffered under years of a frozen salary schedule, even though some lawmakers have suggested that teachers should be grateful for what they have and their salary and benefits packages are reasonable.

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While most of us will be freezing in dark poverty in a few years, he will be basking in the luxury of inflation proof medical, dental and pension benefits that the rest of us can only dream of, and yet oddly enough have to pay for.

If desired, the death benefit could be frozen at $ 180,071 (year 20), and the dividend amount in excess of the gross premium could then be paid in cash.

After several years of salary and benefits being frozen, cut and rigidly defined, employers are starting to refocus on the role money plays in facilitating engagement.

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Buyers also benefited from a historic property tax provision that freezes their tax assessment for 15 years at a level based on the property's preredevelopment value.