The amount also includes payments to Medicare providers, salary for active duty military members, and retirement benefits for veterans and military and civil service retirees.
SO THE British government is setting up an advice service for retirees with a pension pot, now that they no longer need to buy an annuity with the money.
It's not clear how high taxes will go or how many services — from retiree health care to garbage removal — we may someday need to pay more for, or cover ourselves.
And organizers say many Fort Hood residents — the base serves about 218,000 people, including service members, retirees and military families — have grown tired of the war and agree with Mr. Obama's declaration that it must end.
The company also contributes to an account, based on an employee's years of service, that retirees can use when they leave Intel to lower the premiums they would otherwise pay.
That kind of cost savings appeals exactly to the kind of people that TransferWise is seeing already using the service: expats, retirees, overseas workers and (increasingly) small businesses.
In the near future, Weiss says, the team will be opening the network up to former service members, retirees, Department of Defense employees, and so on.
A wave of municipal bankruptcies won't just decimate city services and retirees' lifestyles.
And if you factor in rising co-payments on health care services, most retirees already face living on less.
These include datacentres such as the SuperNAP; call centres, warehouses and logistics hubs; and medical services for retirees (who currently tend to go to California for surgery).
Zhao Xiaomao, who in a brief pre-election speech had boasted of newly paved roads, new public toilets and better services for retirees, easily regained the post of director, a full-time position paying about $200 a month.
