Sentence examples for a universal benefit for from inspiring English sources

Thus, for example, old age support came largely in the form of Social Security, something that looked like a pension workers had earned, not a universal benefit for all the needy elderly.

In Ontario, prescription drug coverage is a universal benefit for patients 65 years of age or older.

This was especially confusing for women under 18 years old because Healthy Start is a universal benefit for this group during pregnancy but is means-tested after birth and following their 18th birthday.

In other words, should the BBC, and the public service television it delivers, be a universal benefit we all pay for, or simply the bit that is left after commercially funded broadcasters make the programmes that advertisers or subscribers want to support?

So before offering a new universal benefit for the millions of Americans who lack health insurance, Congress should put an end to manipulative profiteering in Medicare.

The BBC Trust said it "would be unacceptable for licence-fee payers to pick up a bill for what is a universal benefit".

The Millennium Cohort Study is a prospective study of UK children born between September 2000 and January 2002 eligible for child benefit (a universal benefit).

Yet on February 23rd Mr Cameron promised that he will continue to protect what should be considered an extravagance: universal benefits for pensioners.In 2010 the Tories took power pledging to protect these handouts, which include free bus passes, television licences and the winter-fuel allowance, an annual cash benefit.

-- California could become the first state to make retirement savings accounts a near-universal benefit for workers.

In the question session after the speech, he explained: "We have a coalition agreement commitment to maintain those universal benefits for all pensioners, so I'm not asking the prime minister to re-open that during this Parliament.

But Duncan Smith showed he remains at odds with David Cameron when he gave a strong hint that he would like to see universal benefits for pensioners, such as the winter fuel allowance, abolished at the next election.