Sentence examples for payments raised from inspiring English sources

It reduced annual increases in pension payments, raised the retirement age and capped pensionable salaries.

Finally, after numerous trips to family court, she could get her child support payments raised from $38 to $120 a month.

To put this important issue into context, along with oil sales, taxation and extortion, the UN estimates that ransom payments raised up to £28million for ISIL in the last twelve months alone.

Each person's age is a factor, and in the US Airways case, pilots who were at least 53 years old when the plan failed may have their payments raised above the government's limits.

And he wants to slash spending on Medicaid, which has already been squeezed, by a whopping $1.5 billion.The governor's pension reform is different from the overhaul passed in 2013 by lawmakers under Pat Quinn, his Democratic predecessor, which would have reduced annual increases in pension payments, raised the retirement age and capped pensionable salaries.

This week, he signed a bill that greatly increases government workers' payments for benefits, freezes pension payments, raises some retirement ages and restricts union bargaining power.

Last Monday, he chose not to make $69.4 million in aircraft financing payments, raising fears of default and leading to a downgrade of Continental's debt.

But farmers and agribusiness, which represents 13percentt of the country's gross domestic product, convinced Congress to pass annual emergency payments raising subsidies to a record $20 billion last year.

He and others said they could not afford the extra payments, raising the prospect of an exodus from a historically middle-class complex that has been in turmoil for years.

ATHENS — As officials across Europe continued managing the effects of Greece's debt crisis, Greeks returned to the streets of Athens Wednesday to protest pension system overhaul that will cut monthly payments, raise retirement ages and eliminate entitlements.

Mr. Sheehan, the federal prosecutor, said that based on the limited documents he had reviewed, the special marketing fees did not appear to reflect any specific services in exchange for the payments, raising questions to him about why they were paid.