Sentence examples for benefits aim from inspiring English sources

Such benefits aim to reduce the "poverty trap" by cutting the cost in lost benefits of taking a job and increasing the number of jobs by making it possible for employers to fill jobs that do not pay a living wage.

Backing for benefits aimed at children has even increased over the last decade.

Meanwhile, he said, American manufacturers would be unable to take advantage of new benefits aimed directly at them.

Earlier this month Barclaycard - the UK's oldest and biggest card issuer - announced it was spending tens of millions of pounds on a package of benefits aimed at keeping it ahead of the pack.

In fact, when other smaller benefits aimed at helping disabled people and their carers are factored in, the total cost of such measures makes up £35bn of the £74bn.

The China trade measure also got a lift today when House and Senate negotiators agreed on details of a bill to give African and Caribbean countries wide-ranging trade benefits aimed at helping their ailing economies.

Labour accused the government of imposing a "strivers' tax" and a "mummy tax" on Thursday as it criticised government plans to impose a three-year squeeze on a range of benefits aimed at both those in and out of work.

The report's authors said their estimates did not include the full cost of benefits aimed at preventing poverty or helping people to find a way out of it, such as working tax credits or jobseeker's allowance.

"Progressive universalism" - the Treasury's new buzz phrase describing universal benefits aimed at the poor - helped the government lift 500,000 children out of poverty by 2000, though this fell well short of its target.

The theory further indicates that tax cuts or spending programs (such as extended unemployment benefits) aimed primarily at lower-income households should be considerably more effective at stimulating or maintaining aggregate spending than programs aimed at richer households.

He ruled out restoring the cuts to benefits for lone parents, which the government controversially pushed through Parliament last year, implying that a restoration of benefits aimed directly at single-parent families would create perverse incentives to single motherhood.