Sentence examples for targeted benefits from inspiring English sources

Don't expect to hear much about targeted benefits anytime before November.

Ewan Gurr, the Scotland development officer for the trust, called on the SNP government to consider making feminine hygiene products available free to women in receipt of certain targeted benefits.

But this, too, looks strategic: Facebook's annual report to investors spoke of "maximizing the relevance of each impression to selected users" and offering marketers targeted benefits based on the personal information they share — that is, age, tastes, location, and gender.

Obviously hiking VAT, even to a more general level of, say, 12 per cent, would on the whole hit the poor rather than the rich, but we can devise better ways to help those in need, through taking more out of taxation and national insurance, and improving targeted benefits for those out of work, and building an economy that creates better-paid and more secure jobs.

Many firms lose targeted benefits when their employment, assets or receipts surpass a certain threshold.

The long-standing wisdom that universally designed benefits outperform targeted benefits in terms of poverty reduction has come under siege.

Would you target benefits, salaries, personnel or weapons?

In a study of 18 rich countries, the academics found that targetting benefits at the poorest usually generated resentment among those just above – and led to smaller entitlements.

Anna Wright, Unicef's project coordinator for the report, said the government was turning around the UK's appalling history on child poverty by targeting benefits specifically at low income families.

But targeting benefits to those who most need them is surely better than reducing payments to providers (many of whom will drop out of Medicare), as President Obama's 2010 law does.

Internet businesses argue that such targeting benefits everybody: advertisers get access to customers who are more likely to buy their products while individuals receive offers for stuff they are interested in.