Sentence examples for benefits programmes from inspiring English sources

The Justice Department runs a number of benefits programmes, and Holder said same-sex couples will now qualify for them.

Facing political insurgency within his own left-leaning party over proposals to cut spending, including benefits programmes, in order to balance the national budget, Ecuador's head of state was close to dissolving the deadlocked national assembly and ruling by presidential decree until the next election.

Paul Wilding, Oxford city council's revenues and benefits programme manager, said: "The benefit cap together with the right [employment] support is actually a useful measure.

"People started saying: 'If you want me to be an active consumer, I need to know prices,'" explains Virginia Proestakes, the head of GE's benefits programme.

The total could rise to 4m by the end of April, when the existing emergency benefits programme expires and those still enrolled in it face the termination of their benefits.

When the current emergency benefits programme expires, the maximum duration of benefits may drop to just six months a quarter of the current time span although the Obama administration says it will fight for a new extension.

Billions of Medicaid dollars (a federal benefits programme aimed at the very poorest) for example, are siphoned off, Hatcher writes, "using illusory budget shell games to divert aid funds from vulnerable populations to state coffers and private profit".

All of the plans create new insurance markets, along the lines of the federal employees health benefits programme, that offer a menu of coverage options and subsidies for low income Americans.

The House of Representatives budget committee chairman, Paul Ryan, on Sunday accused the Obama administration of "perpetuating poverty" with a benefits programme that does not help the poor find a way to a better life.

Bezos set up the unit to fill the gaps left by third-party carriers, such as the US Postal Service, and to ensure the two-day delivery pledge for members of its Prime benefits programme.

The Work and Pensions Secretary has admitted that the government's flagship benefits programme may not be completed on time.