The attention prompted then-President Jacques Chirac to order that their pensions be raised.
The film prompted Jacques Chirac, then the president, to order that the veterans' pensions be raised.
We will restore the earnings link for the basic state pension from April 2011 with a "triple guarantee" that pensions are raised by the higher of earnings, prices or 2.5%, as proposed by the Liberal Democrats.
What they say: "We will restore the earnings link for the basic state pension from April 2011 with a 'triple guarantee' that pensions are raised by the higher of earnings, prices or 2.5%, as proposed by the Liberal Democrats".
In particular, from the early 1980s, benefits – from unemployment benefit to the state pension – were raised in line with prices not earnings, thus condemning benefit recipients to minimal improvements in living standards.
His appeals on the matter were at first rejected, but when Lord North became Prime Minister in 1770, the pension was raised, but shortly after replaced by an appointment as commissioner on the Board of Revenue for Ireland, which paid the same amount.
"The company has no record of whether any specific questions were raised about the pension terms by Lord Myners," RBS said.
The Prime Minister said that before adopting the West German mark, salaries and pensions should be raised by the amount now spent on subsidizing products and services.
It is true that the youthful and heavily middle-class protesters of the Orange Revolution "didn't go out on Independence Square to ask for their pensions to be raised," in the words of Viktor Skarshevsky, an economic adviser to Anatoly Kinakh, a top member of the Ukrainian government.
To the list of proposed changes described in your March 25 editorial "N.Y.C. vs. N.Y.S., the Pension Battle," I would suggest the following if control of pension costs returns to the city: The age required to collect a full city pension should be raised to the Social Security full retirement age — currently 66 or 67, depending on your birth year.
