Sentence examples for wider welfare from inspiring English sources

Legal aid's place within the wider welfare state is overlooked in the bill.

The payments will have no effect on entitlement to other benefits, as they currently do, with ongoing support provided through the wider welfare state".

Child benefit payments for all higher-rate taxpayers will be stopped to pay for wider welfare reform and to show that "we are all in this together", George Osborne said today.

For the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, binding higher rate taxpayers into the state, even at a cost of more than £2bn, is a price worth paying if it wins their continued support for the wider welfare system.

As a result, both governments could propose short-term reductions in pensions, unemployment benefit, wider welfare benefits and public sector wages as part of the package and get grudging acceptance.

"On top of the ageing population – which is increasing faster in Scotland than the rest of the UK – the Scottish government are committing to spending even more on wider welfare without saying how they'll pay for it".

The UK-wide welfare state should act as a minimum level of protection that we can top-up from our own resources if that's what Scots want".

But for true believers, the journey will not be complete until there is a Europe-wide welfare state, featuring harmonised taxes and common social legislation.

Northern Ireland's attitude to UK-wide welfare reforms had become an increasingly difficult stumbling block for the power-sharing executive in recent months.

A spokesperson for the Local Government Association said: "Faced with rising demand, wide-ranging welfare reforms and falling social housing, councils are struggling to tackle the nation's growing homelessness crisis.

Mr. Osborne spoke as the country confronted severe and wide-ranging welfare reforms, devised by him, that will impose new limits on benefits available to any family, forcing many more — including the disabled — to pay residency taxes from which they were once exempt and freezing tax breaks for retirees.