The September change reflected the effects of unemployment compensation legislation, which reduced emergency unemployment insurance benefits by $25.5 billion at an annual rate in September, after boosting benefits by $20.5 billion in August.This recession, the longest and deepest of the postwar period, has generated an unusually high level of long-term unemployment.
Many European countries are boosting benefits for families.
NASI's solutions--which provided the basis for reform now recommended by the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging--include options for boosting benefits adequacy, increasing the Social Security Trust Fund's solvency and benefit reductions.
The waning anti-Social Security lobby will try to stop our progress, but the American people understand that boosting benefits is the right thing to do and now is the right time to do it, for millions of middle-class families and our nation's economic recovery.
He stuck by the controversial levy on rich non-domiciled foreigners, and boosted benefits for poor families.
One Chinese newspaper said boosting grain subsidies would probably be offset by the continuing high cost of fertiliser.In Maoying village a poster announces a plan to boost benefits for participants in a new rural health-care scheme, which has been rolled out across the country over the past few years.
The latest COLA, which takes effect this month, will boost benefits by 1.7percentt.
To GOP lawmakers, steps like blocking states from gaming food stamp eligibility rules to boost benefits or trying to stop undocumented immigrants from claiming tax refunds of up to $1,000 per child are simply no-brainers.
The "Strengthen Social Security Act of 2013" gets rid of this loophole, boosts benefits, and would extend the solvency of Social Security by almost two additional decades, until 2049.
Doing so might force policymakers to consider a slate of radical options: boosting the benefits councils get when new homes are built; direct funding of housebuilding by Whitehall; or taxing property wealth more heavily.
