Sentence examples for benefits reached from inspiring English sources

Last week, new claims for unemployment benefits reached their highest level in six years, according to the Labor Department.

Mr. Thompson's salary and benefits reached as high as $1.3 million — six times the prime minister's pay.

The agency said the number of people claiming unemployment benefits reached a record high of 452,882, a 3.4 percent rise from May.

First introduced by unions bargaining with employers in the 1960's, retiree health benefits reached a peak in 1988 as many companies used them to enrich early-retirement packages.

The Labor Department said the number of people continuing to receive unemployment benefits reached a seasonally adjusted 4.78 million the week that ended Jan . 17 the highest level on records that go back to 1967.

Before this recession the number of working-age adults on out-of-work benefits reached 5.4 million, and youth unemployment had been static for a decade (it is now higher than at any stage since 1993).

For a similar family in the Netherlands, benefits reach 70percentt.

Resources are well spent on cancer prevention efforts, and the benefits reach well beyond cancer.

Now Serbia is experiencing modest economic growth, but there is little sign of any benefits reaching Trgoviste.

The payroll tax cut reaches 160 million Americans, while federal jobless benefits reach some four million Americans who have been out of work for more than six months.

Fiscal policy was already on course to knock 1.4 points off growth, as last year's payroll-tax cut and extension to unemployment benefits reach their expiry date.