Sentence examples for benefits squeeze from inspiring English sources

Mr Osborne's proposed benefits squeeze may be seen as a first strike in that campaign.

Do you think Labour is right to oppose the government's state benefits squeeze?

Labour counters that the distinction is false since 60% of those affected by the benefits squeeze are in work.

The bill will cover the two years from 2014-15, since the benefits squeeze for the coming year has already been agreed by parliament.

The Tories point out that Labour is rejecting this benefits squeeze at a time when it is supporting a one-year public sector pay freeze for those in work.

While we don't like the idea of poor people starving, we cling to ideas of the 'deserving' and 'undeserving' poor It's worth remembering that skills and talent flee along with people Nobel economist also says PM's benefits squeeze will not slow EU migration The encouraging trend will not continue if developing countries' growth stalls and inequality within countries is not kept in check.

The pain was to be most acute for those on benefits: squeezed already, they will bear the brunt of a £3.75bn cut in welfare spending.

Most of them are on benefits, squeezed by the Bedroom Tax, benefit caps and "sanctions" – thanks to the efforts of Iain Duncan Smith - and often one payment away from the street.

Making poor people's lives even bleaker via worsening social mobility and job prospects; paying lip-service to affordable housing; not building enough new homes and then punishing poor people via endless benefits squeezes – all of these contribute to that nihilism.

The idea that politicians will have a lot of their benefits squeezed will play very well publicly, but Italy's problems go deeper than that.

As the benefit squeeze bites on these, its popularity will surely wane.