Germany spends over €2 billion a year subsidising bonus payments for working evenings and weekends an incentive first introduced by the Nazis to boost munitions production during the second world war.The financial crisis has been a missed opportunity to cut this sort of outdated largesse, says Pierre Leblanc of the OECD.
The previous government cut pensions (although a court has recently ruled that measures carried out in 2012 were unconstitutional), became better at identifying bogus claims and collecting debt, and had passed legislation to reduce supplementary pensions by preventing the state from subsidising such payments.
(NHIF member) They did not support the use of NHIF funds to cross-subsidise benefit payment or the costs of administering the CHF, due to concerns about the financial sustainability of the CHF in light of unreliable member income, and a greater disease burden among poorer groups targeted by the CHF.
There's extra heating costs in the winter, because Celyn (since she can't move) gets cold very easily, the cost of specialist clothes, the cost of transport, the cost of paying for care (with the actual cost of paying carers currently exceeding the amount allocated by the council to families, so that families have subsidise the payments, or settle for fewer hours) and the extra cost of holidays.
It is subsidising the balance of payments deficit.
Given that IBRC is state-owned, Murphy was suggesting that the Irish people have been subsidising O'Brien's interest payments on massive loans for no clear reason.
By subsidising those wages through payments for work in the special clinic, doctors work for MCH as a whole may be secured.
Another council, Middlesbrough, used over half its local welfare allocation – nearly £400,000 – to subsidise council tax payments for low income families whose council tax benefit had been abolished under government reforms.
In 2003, the EU agreed to replace a blizzard of farm-support payments with a single payment scheme, which subsidises farmers' incomes directly, rather than by paying higher prices for their crops and livestock.
Since only mobile operators were allowed to issue SIMs, and were given much leeway over the terms on which they did so, they were able to create monthly payment schemes which subsidised the upfront cost of a handset.
