Sentence examples for benefit spending from inspiring English sources

The former doesn't want what he calls "cheese-paring" of benefit spending.

In 1998 it was Gordon Brown's tax credits, today it's cuts in total benefit spending.

But the Treasury has quietly dropped plans to provide a further breakdown of benefit spending.

The death of Welfare does not mean an end to all benefit spending.

The solution is simple: raise the minimum wage, add benefits, and so reduce government benefit spending.

In fact, the IPPR thinktank has published a report suggesting that a 5% increase in maternal employment could be worth £750m annually in increased tax revenue and reduced benefit spending.

A UK think tank has published a report suggesting that a 5% increase in maternal employment in the UK could be worth £750m (AU$1.6bn) annually in increased tax revenue and reduced benefit spending.

This could begin to frame a debate about different visions and strategies for social security, rather than an argument about "more or less" benefit spending that the left cannot win.

The chancellor regards his £500 a week on the benefits individual households can succeed as one of his greatest political hits, and now plans to extend the approach by setting a cap for overall benefit spending.

Labour frontbenchers have been arguing that a Labour government could find the money by not cutting the 50p top rate of tax, or by implementing a work programme that would cut benefit spending.

Well, not quite all benefit spending – jobseeker's allowance, together with extra payments for housing benefit and so on that the unemployed receive automatically, will be exempt; so, too, will the state pension.