Sentence examples for cutting back on payments from inspiring English sources
"Means testing" — cutting back on payments to the relatively wealthy — is one way to better allocate benefits.
To put it bluntly, it means paying out full benefits only to those who really need them, and cutting back on payments to everybody else.
Labour has backed government plans to toughen the immigration system by cutting back on benefit payments and grounds for appeal against deportation.
Congress had asked the Health Care Financing Administration to adopt a system of payments that better reflects differences in costs -- raising reimbursements in cities like Minneapolis, where health costs have been held down, and making up the increases by cutting back on annual rises in payments in high-cost markets like New York and South Florida.
The big squeeze on their pay will now continue for another year; significantly the chancellor said this would not just be a case of continuing with a 1% limit on general rises, but would also involve cutting back on so-called progression payments which reward teachers, civil servants and others for their experience as they develop their career.
They're also cutting back on "gross-ups," or payments to cover taxes due on the free stuff they provide executives.
Many of these women subsist by relying on money from friends and family, cutting back on necessities and delaying payment of bills.
Besides cutting back on Medicare, the law reduced payments to hospitals for the uninsured, a decision based on the assumption that states would expand their Medicaid programs.
Some fears have proved unfounded: poor people have not responded to cash payments by cutting back on paid work.
Changes to child benefit payments will leave many parents cutting back on vital necessities, a campaign warns.
You might be perfectly happy to take on a larger monthly mortgage payment in exchange for reducing meals out, cutting back on luxury vacations, or sticking with your old phone instead of going for the upgrades just because you can.
