Everybody's Business, March 27), which advised investors against laziness in managing their portfolios -- in looking for errors on monthly statements, for example: Instead of waiting to slog through a thick monthly packet from your brokerage firm, be proactive.
The average monthly packet for civilians is nowadays worth only $50; pensioners have only just got their February payments; and hospitals are short of medicines to treat the estimated 10,000 people injured by NATO's bombs.
"My monthly pay packet was $1,000 in 1999, it is now worth $515.
By the time my monthly pay packet came around, I would have literally just a few pounds in the bank.
One and half million people have so far found money taken out of their monthly pay packet and put into a workplace pensions.
She added: "The best way to help people support themselves and their families is to stick to our long-term economic plan which is creating more jobs, so more people have the added security of a monthly pay packet".
More than one in three families in England are a monthly pay packet away from losing their homes, according to research by Shelter highlighting how many households have almost no savings.
One of the great saving graces of being employed (putting aside for a moment benefits like a monthly pay packet and so on, not least because who knows how long any of us will still be receiving one of those) is that it is an experience you share with plenty of other people.
And there is little doubt that the art- and antique-collecting Tottenham fan - his new government role means he has had to resign from the board of the north London club - can afford a couple of years without a monthly pay packet.
For a growing number of workers, job satisfaction is about more than just their monthly pay packet.
