Sentence examples for benefits raised from inspiring English sources

The government cut benefits, raised charges and made it harder for workers to claim disability allowances.

Mr. Toubin said the $100,000 these benefits raised has kept him afloat financially.

Last year, national insurance contributions – which the government has to spend on specified benefits – raised £102bn.

Even while Mr. Cortez was laying off people and freezing teachers' salaries, the chief financial officer, Sheryl P. Buchel, had her salary and benefits raised to $258,169 in 2009, from $255,345 in 2008.

At the same time, the government prolonged unemployment benefits, raised the minimum welfare allotment and created a temporary work program that found jobs for more than 100,000 people.

While stabilizing the markets was the primary concern, preventing money funds from "breaking the buck" — and the fallout — were benefits raised early in the discussions, according to several people involved with the plan.

Still, for all the perceived benefits, raising money is not easy.

Often they are benefits, raising money for one group or another.

To keep them solvent, Congress would need to trim benefits, raise taxes or take some combination of such steps.

Although this public spending can produce health and social benefits, raising taxes to finance it comes at the cost of slower economic growth.

House Democrats failed in a bid to extend jobless benefits, raising the prospect that aid could run out for millions of Americans headed into the holidays.