Sentence examples for curtailing welfare from inspiring English sources
LONDON — The British government on Wednesday unveiled the country's steepest public spending cuts in more than 60 years, reducing costs in government departments by an average of 19 percent, sharply curtailing welfare benefits, raising the retirement age to 66 by 2020 and eliminating hundreds of thousands of public sector jobs in an effort to bring down the bloated budget deficit.
The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government of Prime Minister David Cameron is planning to cut almost 500,000 jobs and to curtail welfare spending to bring the public finances into line.
Although the administration's plan to further curtail welfare dependency should be applauded ("Bush Urges Work and Marriage Programs in Welfare Plan," news article, Feb. 27), it continues to overlook the role that financial independence can play in promoting family values.
That is because it allows us to reduce energy consumption without curtailing social welfare.
First, as expected, the Chancellor is cutting the working age welfare bill dramatically: By curtailing access to tax credits, housing benefit and freezing existing payments he plans to cut around £12bn from this line of state expenditure by 2019-20 (relatove to where spending would have been if policy had not changed).
But today, we have something closer to the inverse: maximum monopolies functioning as corporate welfare for the content industry while severely curtailing individual artistic creation.
While European countries maintained huge social-service programs and paid for them with high unemployment, the United States sharply curtailed its best-known welfare program in the mid-1990's and the jobless rate just kept dropping.
Curtailing that terror is essential.
Re "Curtailing the kitsch," Feb. 26.
You know how this one goes: a story is published about someone with 17 children who's living on welfare, and "getting" £38,000 a year, and the piece goes on to discuss the total welfare bill, before concluding that, because the system is being "abused", welfare should be curtailed or abolished.
