Sentence examples for cutting benefit from inspiring English sources

"Conventional wisdom suggests that taking money off benefit claimants (eg by sanctions or cutting benefit rates) acts as a financial incentive to get a job.

The senator shuns partial privatization -- the Bush plan -- or raising the retirement age or shrinking the annual cost-of-living adjustment as a means of cutting benefit costs.

For example, they would not agree to taking away housing benefit from the under-25s, cutting benefit for families with a large number of children, freezing benefits or cutting them, or taking £10bn out of the welfare budget.

However, an official evaluation of the cap by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in 2014 found the "large majority" of capped claimants did not respond by moving into work, and a DWP-backed study in Oxford published in June found that cutting benefit entitlements made it less likely that unemployed people would get a job.

In effect, he said: "To avoid cutting benefits later, cut benefits now".

Rather than cutting benefits of existing workers, governments usually cut benefits for future workers.

Congress could prevent the shortfall by raising taxes, cutting benefits, or both -- though cuts are a favored GOP option.

Tax cuts continue unabated, and the administration is cutting benefits to veterans.

They don't propose cutting benefits to current retirees; invariably the plan is, instead, to cut benefits many years in the future.

This is the usual formula put forth by those who advocate cutting benefits now so that they don't have to be cut later.

Past versions of the bill had cut those taxes which many Democrats and some Republicans criticized as a giveaway to the wealthy while cutting benefits.