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There is longstanding evidence that workers would prefer a larger share of compensation in the form of benefits.
Much of it goes in the form of benefits, such as employer contributions to health insurance or pensions.
Employers, too, may prefer to offer increased compensation in the form of benefits, because they may find it easier to cut benefits during a downturn.
Part of the answer appears to be that American workers are receiving a growing share of compensation in the form of benefits rather than wages.
Most people – including those with high incomes, who qualify for far more deductions and credits than the average person – just don't "see" tax deductions as a subsidy similar to those given to low-income people in the form of benefits.
Where we deviate from the norm is on directly-paid benefits: only 9% of US wages are paid out in the form of benefits, compared to a 16.2% average for the 30 countries surveyed by the BLS.
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The systematic targeting of the vulnerable in the form of benefit sanctions (while protecting the interests of the powerful) panders to the lowest instincts of the crowd.
Standard Life is also thought to be considering offering some form of benefit to its 4.5 million banking, healthcare and other customers who do not qualify for share windfalls.
Every day, 23 people are arrested and charged for fraudulently claiming some form of benefit, and rightly so – the fake claims take money away from the genuinely disabled.
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