Sentence examples for decreasing benefits from inspiring English sources

With increased transaction costs, worsening solvency for the system, increased budget deficits and decreasing benefits and security for retirees, why the drive for privatisation?

For example, the 20 states that cut their benefits starting on March 31 or April 6 trimmed 10.7 percent from each weekly benefit check, whereas Maryland and New Jersey started decreasing benefits on June 30, which required slashing all future weekly checks by 22.2 percent to achieve the total required savings.

Results at the NUTS 2 level for European countries indicate (a) that marginal willingness-to-pay estimates tend to be higher for natural areas that are scarcer, and (b) that a nonlinear relationship between land cover and well-being is preferred to a linear relationship indicating decreasing benefits from individual landscape amenities.

Improving the delivery of care to this discrete subset could save an enormous amount of money over time without decreasing benefits.

Would you support legislation that would add $202 billion to the Medicare trust fund in the next 20 years, without raising taxes or decreasing benefits by one penny?

Democrats and Republicans both favor "saving" and "protecting" Social Security and Medicare; Mulvaney thinks Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme" and, like other Republicans, wants to save the programs by decreasing benefits. .

Additional purchases of bread beyond people's appetite for it will be of decreasing benefit or utility and will eventually lose all utility beyond the point at which hunger is completely satisfied.

In general, there appeared to be a trend of decreasing benefit as the years of observation increased.

A striking observation from this cumulative meta-analysis was that there was trend for a monotonically decreasing benefit of zinc with the chronological rank of the studies.

Most West Germans now expect that they will face increased taxes and decreased benefits to pay for the privilege of competing for jobs with their poor eastern cousins.

Michael G. Brautigam Cincinnati, Sept. 16, 2008 • To the Editor: Cheers for Bob Herbert for bringing to readers' attention the radical nature of Senator John McCain's health plan, which would raise costs, decrease benefits and leave consumers with less protection.