Sentence examples for reducing benefit from inspiring English sources

Reducing benefit levels for the long-term unemployed.

Rapid unification would mean reducing benefit levels for West Germans, or raising taxes.

They argue that their tax break will help encourage stable families, reducing benefit dependency and helping children.

What makes this welfare-to-work package so attractive to New Labour is its potential for a win-win strategy: reducing benefit bills by getting parents into work as well as raising children's pre-school achievement in good nurseries.

But Lib Dems plans are based on two optimistic claims: vast majority of welfare savings would be achieved by reducing benefit fraud and error and getting the jobless back to work; and raising £10bn from reducing tax avoidance.

But the association has quietly circulated a 51-page report saying that the expiration of 30 union contracts in June presents a chance to reform the $25 billion unionized construction industry by eliminating what the report calls obsolete work rules and featherbedding; by adopting a standard eight-hour day for all building trades; and by reducing benefit packages.

Meanwhile, Mr. Bush has said nothing about reducing benefits.

Fourteen states are reducing benefits, like dental care for adults.

That means reducing benefits is very difficult, if not impossible.

Just 16 percent supported reducing benefits for future recipients, and 8 percent endorsed reducing benefits of current Medicare recipients.

To union leaders, though, "labor flexibility" is just a euphemism for reducing benefits.