Sentence examples for pension threshold from inspiring English sources

For example, when Solidarity – one of the unions who played a key role in the 1989 uprisings – recently protested against the government's raising of the pension threshold from 65 to 67 years, its co-founder Lech Walesa said in an interview that he'd have liked to have seen the police face down the demonstrators.

If wages (and all contribution bases including the maximum limit) grow steadily at the rate of productivity, but the maximum pension threshold is not adjusted in line with wages, then the replacement rate (ratio pension / average wage) will decrease for individuals entitled to the maximum pension and the ratio (average pension /average productivity) of the system as a whole will also decrease.

The minimum pension thresholds were left unchanged to protect the poorest pensioners.

As shown in Table 8, policies have a positive impact on welfare when the requirements are stricter for low-educated individuals: despite qualifying for lower pension thresholds, they work for more years and more so in formal work.

There the 50p tax cut was measured not against the rise in stamp duty or the clampdown on avoidance but against the freezing of the pensions threshold.

Freezing the pensions tax threshold was not unreasonable, given how relatively well pensioners have done of late.

Many risk no gain at all if their pension falls below the threshold for the minimum pension guarantee when they retire, losing everything.

The taper rate will double from $1.50 to $3, meaning that for every $1,000 of assets over the asset-free threshold, the pension will be reduced by $3 a fortnight.

The unions and pensions experts had expected the threshold to be set higher than £15,000, meaning more workers would be protected from rises.

After protests from labor unions, the government said it would raise the threshold at which pensions do not receive cost-of-living increases.

He argued that Liberal Democrats in Downing Street had increased pensions, raised the income tax threshold, and had handed more powers to Holyrood.