And he wants to offer a prescription drug benefit under which those on Medicare would receive half of the cost of their drugs, up to $5,000 annually.
The policies that have had the biggest impact on women include cuts in tax credits, which took £8.3bn from women but only £2.3bn from men, reductions in housing benefit, under which women lost £2.3bn and men £1.5bn, and the three-year freeze in child benefit, which costs women £3.5bn and men £346m.
By focusing anger on Atos, attention is distracted from the government's drive to reduce the numbers of people claiming sickness benefits, under which the eligibility criteria have been narrowed so that many severely ill and disabled people no longer qualify.
No more defined benefit plan, under which promises are made so that state bureaucrats can retire with high benefits at fairly young ages.
In March, a report by the centre-right Policy Exchange thinktank concluded that the coalition's tightening of benefit sanctions – under which jobseekers can lose up to four weeks' of payments for missing an interview – was leaving many dependent on food handouts.
Unlike Singapore, where citizens are required to contribute to a provident fund from which their pensions will be drawn, the pensions Indonesia has promised to offer to the nation in 2015 will be partly on a "defined benefit" basis, under which a person's pension may not necessarily match his contributions.
New state workers would not go into the traditional, defined- benefit plan, under which a pension is based on an employee's length of service and salary level.
As PolitiFact pointed out at the time, the Lifeline government benefit program, under which the phones were distributed, was established under the Reagan administration in 1984 to ensure that all Americans have access to telephone services.
In addition, the range of benefit values under which the turn-taking strategy evolves increase with increasing observation errors, a decreasing number of contest rounds and an increasing number of individuals per group.
For years, drug companies have objected to Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, under which government officials decide which drugs to cover and how much to pay for them.
Companies have also, sensibly, been switching from defined-benefit schemes, under which the company bears the risk of maintaining pension payments, to defined-contribution plans, in which the risk lies with individual pensioners.Poison-pill pensionsPension funds are also becoming a contentious issue in takeover battles: the thought of a hole has put buyers off.
