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The word 'contributory' is a valid and commonly used word in written English.
It means something or someone that contributes or adds to a result or outcome. Example sentence: The employee's contributory attitude towards work led to the company's success.
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contributory
adjective
Of, pertaining to, or involving a contribution
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Removing the contributory element of job seekers allowance and employment and support allowance would save money because claimants who had made sufficient national insurance contributions could receive the benefits with minimal means testing.
Alcohol is well known to be a contributory factor in incidents of disorder but it is a complex issue and a crackdown on 'troublesome drunks' is too simplistic an answer.
The Fabians' solution to stemming the Ukip tide was a combination of switching to community-based campaigning on doorstop issues like "like pay day loan and betting shops, litter picks and night safety campaigns", to national policy focus on cost of living, housing ringfences for local people, or introducing the contributory principle to welfare.
He thinks radiation was, at most, a contributory factor to his father's death.
Thinkers from all three major parties are flirting with the idea of a contributory system, which would have hefty transitional costs but could be more responsive to changing circumstances in the long run.
Its parent company, which maintained these computers, was found guilty of "contributory infringement" of copyright.
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Yet as democracy has come to Mexico, governments have added a parallel system of non-contributory pensions, health and child care for informal workers, paid out of general government revenues.The gap in quality between the two systems is narrowing.
The other is a clutch of social programmes funded by general taxation, including the famous Bolsa Família, which gives modest sums to around 12m very poor families; non-contributory pensions for rural workers; unemployment benefits; and a state top-up for workers in the formal sector on very low salaries.One way to slow the growth in such transfers would be to make fewer people eligible for them.
Moreover, thanks to the union, there are too many cleaners and clerks and not enough doctors and nurses.Meanwhile, Mr Fox's government, with the best of intentions, has launched or expanded a range of non-contributory social-protection schemes for workers outside the IMSS.
Over-65s whose household income per person is less than a quarter of the minimum wage (that is, under 169.50 reais) are entitled to a non-contributory pension equal to the minimum wage (currently 678 reais).
Numbers of migrants and recipients of non-contributory benefits have both risen.
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