Sentence examples for retirement programme from inspiring English sources
On April 7th he was in Kansas City, Missouri, convening the first of four national meetings to debate the future of Social Security, America's retirement programme.
Officials in the US denied the firm was planning "involuntary redundancies", with other reports suggesting it would shed staff through a voluntary retirement programme.
There, some conservatives had hoped to lump Social Security with Medicare and Medicaid to make the retirement programme for the elderly part of the cost-cutting agenda.
(This is very similar to America's Social Security retirement programme, but with far higher contributions from both employers and employees and a far more generous ratio of benefits to contributions).
First, he argued, the administration is under-estimating the amount of late-maturing debt that it can buy back without penalty, based partly on the debt retirement programme so far, which has not incurred penalties.Second, he disputed the idea that the Treasury would have to issue some new debt during the period when it was buying back the old one.
The proposal also largely ignores what analysts say are the country's most crushing budget burdens: the Social Security retirement programme and the Medicare and Medicaid healthcare programmes for the elderly and poor.
With baby-boomers about to retire in growing numbers, the cost of America's public-health and retirement programmes, if left unchanged, will rise from 8% of GDP now to 19% by 2050.
Other recommendations included making employees pay more for their spouse's health care, and cutting "investment" in profit-sharing and 401(k) retirement programmes from 4% to 3%.
Projections of age-related spending for a group of OECD countries show that total spending on old-age pensions, early retirement programmes, and health and long-term care, now 15% of GDP, will rise to 22% of GDP by 2050.
International residential retirement programmes as a policy tool to attract mobile retirees have thus far been under-studied.
The overwhelming majority of the job cuts so far have come about through voluntary redundancy and early retirement programmes or through natural wastage.
