Sentence examples for curtailing benefits from inspiring English sources

Mr Schröder's Agenda 2010 reforms, which tried to push the unemployed into work by curtailing benefits, split the SPD and soured relations with trade unions.

New social security legislation raises the retirement age from 55 to 70 while curtailing benefits, and proposed legislation would limit workers' rights.

The ranks of the uninsured have grown as care becomes more expensive and more employers, through whom most workers get insurance, drop or curtail benefits.

To that end, he said, he would do nothing to curtail benefits for senior citizens, whom he called the "lifeblood of this country".

As Canadians have been living longer, the costs of the system have increased dramatically, leading many provincial governments to curtail benefits or increase social insurance taxes.

Luisa J. Kaufman, 65, president of the Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans, said she worried that employers would use the Medicare law as an excuse to curtail benefits.

The scale of the challenge facing David Cameron at this week's crucial summit to renegotiate Britain's relationship with the EU became clear as four eastern European countries rejected proposals to curtail benefits for migrant workers.

Others say they do not want to reveal their income, as is required, because they fear that the Housing Authority or some other agency might use the information to curtail benefits.

While an employer can always curtail benefits or discontinue them (if a company goes bankrupt, for example), a retiree is pretty well set with original Medicare plus a good company plan.

One way is to wait until April, when — for the first time — the new law will require all companies that may have to curtail benefits to notify the affected workers in writing.

Contrast this to the political climate in late 2011, when Mr. Christie was winning praise from conservatives for his statements toward teachers' unions — an issue that was then in the news because of the protests against efforts by Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin to curtail benefits for public-sector unions in that state.