Sentence examples for benefits soared from inspiring English sources

The number of workers filing new claims for state unemployment benefits soared last week to a nine-year high as economic damage spread from the terrorist attacks.

Debt problems shot up by 27% and queries about welfare benefits soared by 22% in the three months to the end of June, compared with the same period the previous year.

According to the United States Department of Veteran Affairs, the number of veterans receiving benefits soared 16-fold — to 555,329 — within three years of enactment of the so-called post-9/11 G.I. Bill of 2008, which greatly expanded educational and other benefits.

On Thursday, the Labor Department reported that the number of people continuing to seek unemployment benefits soared in the last week by 101,000, to 4.61 million.

Salaries and benefits soared far above civilian compensation, military bases and housing were refurbished, support services like day care, family counseling and on-base college courses were expanded".

The government has drastically trimmed spending on wages and many other things but, because of rising unemployment and a rush of people into early retirement, its finances are in worse shape than before, as costs for pensions and social benefits soar.

AIDS mortality also substantially increases the education wage bill, as attrition costs are high and death benefits soar.

The majority of people affected by the benefit cap are in London and the south-east because the far higher cost of housing has seen the amounts paid out in housing benefit soar.

The number of workers filing for first-time state unemployment benefits has soared to a nine-year high.

The number of people of both sexes receiving benefits has soared by 58percentt in the 12-month period, to an average of 95,360 from 60,440; the rate of increase among men has just been slightly higher than the rate for women.

Unfortunately, recession-induced unemployment has cut into collections of the payroll tax that funds the program (the FICA tax) and the number of older unemployed workers filing for benefits has soared.