Sentence examples for benefits amount to from inspiring English sources

Only those whose earnings or benefits amount to less than this a year are eligible to apply.

Using a 5% discount rate, the benefits amount to some $580 for every infant who avoids a low birth-weight.

"A month ago, I asked the state employee unions to be part of the solution," Mr. Rowland said, noting that wages and benefits amount to one-third of the $13.4 billion budget.

The accidental disability benefits amount to a tax-free pension of three-quarters of an officer's salary, considerably more generous than ordinary disability benefits, a taxable pension of half of an officer's salary.

The federal unemployment insurance system was designed to temporarily replace about half of a laid-off worker's lost income, but Mr. Sklar's benefits amount to just one-fifth of what he said he had earned as a senior systems analyst for Sony Music Entertainment in Manhattan before he was dismissed in late August.

The regressive character of the payroll tax, compared to the progressive structure of most other federal taxes, is clear in the accompanying chart (Fig. 1), from the Tax Policy Center: In the case of Social Security, proposals to raise the age of eligibility for full benefits amount to a benefit cut of 6 to 7 percent for every year that eligibility was increased.

It estimated the damage caused by the 1997-98 Niño at $4bn, but the benefits amounted to some $19bn.

Instead, in 2003, it got its employees to agree to annual cuts in wages and benefits amounting to $1.8 billion.

Social benefits, amounting to about a quarter of the gross family income, were always modest by international standards.

Under such circumstances, extending unemployment benefits amounts to a nudge in the direction of continuing to "look" when we really ought to be looking.

And in August the central government made the first of a series of cuts to benefits amounting to as much as 10% over three years.