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Discover LudwigThe phrase "tough benefit" is not a standard expression in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where you want to describe a benefit that is difficult to achieve or comes with challenges. Example: "While the promotion comes with a tough benefit of increased responsibilities, it also offers significant career growth."
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Tough benefit sanctions are disproportionately hitting vulnerable young and homeless people.
Conditionality and sanctions "Entitlement to UC is subject to a strict regime of 'personalised' conditionality (ie mandatory activity to prepare for and obtain work), backed by tough benefit sanctions (ie loss of benefit) for non-compliance," the government says.
That's a tough benefit to offer when health care for unionized workers cost $1 billion per year of the $2.7 billion Verizon spent on health care for employees and retirees last year.
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Now it plans tougher benefit cuts for the poor.
A leaked email shows staff being warned by managers that they will be disciplined unless they increase the number of claimants referred to a tougher benefit regime.
Recommendations Our key recommendations for Government are that it firstly, aims to end long-term youth unemployment by increasing learning and earning opportunities for young people who should be expected to take up those opportunities or face tougher benefit conditionality.
The first sign of the impact of a tougher benefit sanctions regime has emerged with the publication of Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) statistics showing that nearly 600,000 jobseeker's allowance (JSA) claimants have had adverse benefit sanctions taken against them in the eight months to June.
The prime minister's call for tougher benefit restrictions on new migrants - expected to be a key demand in renegotiation talks - would also need to be agreed by all member states.
The DWP introduced the tougher benefits regime last October, including longer periods off benefits for failing to be fully available for work.
Sprinkle in the effect of a tougher benefits regime and below inflation rises in public sector pay and there you have it: an expanding but more casualised workforce.
Sanctions – the financial penalties under which a jobseeker loses unemployment benefits – have become an increasingly important tool as successive governments have tightened welfare rules to demonstrate that they are tough on benefit claimants.
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