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For years, unpaid carers have had to take on more and more vital care for family members as services collapsed under the weight of cuts to social care. (carers.org)
We look forward to engaging our local services for carers, and carers themselves, so we can work with government to ensure that what unpaid carers really need from a reformed social care system is represented in plans as they move forward. (carers.org)
Other policies and funding would be needed from government alongside the cap to boost the quality of social care services, improve terms and conditions for staff, provide better support for unpaid carers, and more. (health.org.uk)

Taddeo's campaign directed us to a condensed version of Bush's plan to reform Medicare and Social Security on Medium.com , which linked to the full plan on his website . (politifact.com)
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee attack goes too far in framing Scott's idea as a broadly supported death sentence for Medicare and Social Security. (tampabay.com)

When Stacey Abrams unveiled her plan to raise teacher pay by $11,000, many Democrats cheered. (ajc.com)
Democrats like Rep. Val Demings teed up the plan to falsely tag Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., as supporting Scott's pitch. (tampabay.com)
Democrats passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, but their larger climate and social spending bill is still in doubt. (vox.com)
This week, however, a group of moderate Democrats, including Reps. Kurt Schrader, Stephanie Murphy, and Jared Golden, urged a delay for the social spending bill until it received a score from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) laying out how much it would add to the national debt. (vox.com)
House Democrats are considering pushing a massive tax hike on American workers, regardless of their income level, as part of a bill to expand Social Security. (foxbusiness.com)
Although Democrats spend much of their time on the floor of the House or Senate and in committee railing against higher-income earners, the Social Security 2100 Act would, ironically, increase their benefits. (foxbusiness.com)
Democrats are also touting their proposal as a tax cut for low and middle-income seniors. (foxbusiness.com)
The House Democrats' bill isn't the way to address Social Security's financial problems. (foxbusiness.com)
Social Security has to be reformed if the program is to remain viable, but House Democrats' plan falls far short of a serious proposal because the so-called "solution" is more of the same from the far-left: tax increases. (foxbusiness.com)
Instead of proposals to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act and cut important programs and benefits that millions depend on, Republican leaders in Congress should act in the best interest of their own constituents by working with Democrats to pass these policies that materially improve the lives of those they represent. (healthcareforamericanow.org)
Yet again, congressional Democrats are trying for immigration reform through a partisan social spending bill, and it's a long shot. (boisestatepublicradio.org)
Democrats have pitched immigration reform plans twice to the Senate parliamentarian. (boisestatepublicradio.org)
Duhamel joined Association President Frank Valeri on Capitol Hill in late January for the first round of serious discussions on WEP reform to take place since Democrats gained control of the House earlier in the month. (massretirees.com)

Finland's opposition parties also commented on the Centre Party minister's proposal Monday. (yle.fi)
Unpaid family carers were not mentioned once in the Prime Minister's announcement, and it was some time before social care was mentioned. (carers.org)
Reports suggest that the Prime Minister's favoured plan for funding reform - a cap on care costs - faces two key objections from the Treasury: that it will cost too much, and that it may disproportionately benefit the wealthy . (health.org.uk)

From the late 1980s and 1990s Zambia implemented the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund inspired Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), under which significant cuts to public expenditure were applied, considerably weakening delivery of social services in the health, education and other sectors. (socialwatch.org)
A Dilnot-style cap isn't a comprehensive programme to reform social care. (health.org.uk)
According to the report, which was undertaken by the UN Joint Programme on Social Protection for All in Thailand under the technical leadership of the ILO, the country faces challenges from an ageing population and changing labour markets, and the pension system needs to be reformed to meet these needs. (bangkokpost.com)
The development and subsequently the execution of the Twelfth General Programme of Work 2014-2019 and its associated programme budgets are an essential means of advancing the WHO reform process. (who.int)
RWI adapted and revised the RWI Turkey Programme after July 2016 until 2018 when a new programme objective was adopted, " Strengthened human rights performance of targeted actors enabling more informed and inclusive reform initiatives, policies and programmes in Turkey" . (lu.se)

Taken literally, that would leave the fate of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security to the whims of a Congress that rarely passes anything so expansive. (tampabay.com)

Refreshingly, Van Parijs argues the case for the UBI in terms of freedom-a value too seldom invoked in American social welfare policy. (bostonreview.net)
Although stakeholding and the UBI differ in important ways, I want to focus on their shared strengths: both proposals could enhance women's freedom and economic security by breaking the link between social-welfare benefits and paid work. (bostonreview.net)
Despite these well-known facts, neither welfare nor Social Security adequately addresses women's distinctive situation. (bostonreview.net)
Welfare reforms in the mid-1990s adopted the faulty premise that poor single mothers just need to "get a job. (bostonreview.net)
In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State by Charles Murray. (firstthings.com)
Now, in In Our Hands , Murray extends that idea of a guaranteed income into a dramatic proposal to replace the entire welfare state. (firstthings.com)
All national social programs"Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, and all other means-tested benefits"would be replaced by a single grant of $10,000 to be given annually to all adults, from age twenty-one to the end of their lives. (firstthings.com)
This feature aligns the plan with the negative income tax, first proposed by Milton Friedman and adopted by liberal welfare reformers in the 1960s and 1970s. (firstthings.com)
As a proposal to revamp the middle-class welfare state, yes. (firstthings.com)
The proposal would mean that, rather than facing court proceedings and possible jail, children under the age of 14 who break the law would be handled by public health and social workers, and dealt with by specialists in rehabilitation and child welfare, just like children under 10. (smh.com.au)
This year, research areas of special interest are those that illuminates the individual and societal effects of the current pandemic, from a welfare- and social insurance perspective. (lu.se)

The plan aims for large-scale public investment to improve the quality of life for disenfranchised citizens and stimulate the U.S. economy while also averting the devastating global outcomes of climate change. (forbes.com)
It contains historic funding for early childhood care and education and for fighting climate change, as well as key health care reforms. (vox.com)
Cole, Jennifer & Dodds, Klaus (2021) Unhealthy geopolitics: can the response to COVID-19 reform climate change policy? (lu.se)

The plan would also repeal the alternative minimum tax, the parallel income tax system that was set up to ensure the rich pay taxes but that increasingly ensnares the middle class. (typepad.com)
While legislation has been filed again this session to fully repeal the WEP and Government Pension Offset (GPO), Association officials do not believe the proposal has a realistic chance of passage. (massretirees.com)
We remain committed to reform of Social Security and will not falsely lead our members to believe that a full repeal is possible. (massretirees.com)

Not that that's a surprise after Curbelo called Social Security a 'Ponzi scheme' and voted for Speaker Ryan's devastating budget. (politifact.com)
The special election was won by Democrat Kathy Hochul in an overwhelmingly Republican district because of one thing: her defense of Medicare in its current form and her Republican opponent Jane Corwin's support for Paul Ryan's plan to cut funding and change it to a voucher program. (ibtimes.com)
At the very least, they should take a proposal (like Ryan's) that promises to cut inefficiencies more seriously. (ibtimes.com)
Ironically, Ryan's plan wouldn't even affect those who are currently over 55 years old. (ibtimes.com)
As introduced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed and a snazzy YouTube video, Congressman Ryan's plan would reduce federal spending by $6.2 trillion over ten years and reduce the debt by $4.4 trillion. (nymag.com)

Yet Social Security's structure still discourages work past the age of 62. (politifact.com)
Today we will learn more about Social Security's current revenue sources, proposed changes to those sources, and their impact on Social Security workers, beneficiaries, and economic growth. (house.gov)
Social Security's Benefit Levels Are Far From Overly Generous. (tcf.org)

Murray's $10,000 grant would be universal, not conditioned on whether recipients were deserving, like the beneficiaries of Social Security or unemployment insurance, who have contributed toward their benefits. (firstthings.com)
In a new issue brief from The Century Foundation, I against the growing consensus that the only fiscally responsible course of action is to curtail payments to Social Security beneficiaries. (tcf.org)
Retirement income is the focus of old-age pension subscribers and the change would adversely affect the social security system and its beneficiaries, he said. (bangkokpost.com)

The recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a new round of calls for economic reform that will involve the usual issues like tax and business regulation. (smh.com.au)
The UK Chancellor has announced a £650 million life sciences growth package (Life Sci for Growth) to help deliver the Science and Technology framework through reforming regulation, boosting investment and driving up talent and skills. (europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com)

Medvedev declared that "civil society should have means to influence the implementation of social policy. (wikipedia.org)
Executive staff is primarily academic (Ruslan Grinberg [ru], Vladimir Mau etc.)[citation needed] Independent Institute for Social Policy (IISP) Institute for US and Canadian Studies (ISKRAN) Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) The organization itself translates its name as the Institute of Contemporary Development. (wikipedia.org)
But economic reform can also involve working out smarter ways of shaping social policy. (smh.com.au)
To aid policymakers as they shift focus from providing immediate relief to building back the economy for the long term, we explore the role of social insurance and highlight policy proposals for reforms that would make vital and lasting improvements to the U.S. social insurance system. (brookings.edu)
The trustees estimate that, in the absence of policy changes, the combined Social Security trust funds will be exhausted in 2033 - three years earlier than they forecast in last year's report. (cbpp.org)
Budget 2011 announced a number of tax policy changes and longer-term tax reforms that will be subject to consultation. (parliament.uk)
Friend the Minister for Housing and Local Government, I am today announcing the publication of the technical revision to annex B of planning policy statement 3, to make clear that affordable rent falls within the definition of affordable housing for planning purposes. (parliament.uk)
Planning policy statement 3, with a revised annex B can be found at: www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/pps3housing. (parliament.uk)
During this I set out UK policy on our skills strategy, reforms to the national careers service, and the forthcoming Government consultation on informal adult learning. (parliament.uk)
And so far, the parliamentarian has said these proposals go too far into policy and not enough to provide a direct budget impact. (boisestatepublicradio.org)
In his speech to the meeting on Saturday, Prime Minister and Centre leader Juha Sipilä defended his plan for reform of health and social care as a realisation of long-standing Centre party policy. (yle.fi)
This case study describes how the Australian government has grappled with the design of policy and pricing mechanisms, and proposals for fiscally sustainable solutions to long-term care that are in line older people's wishes. (who.int)
Overall Planning and Policy. (cdc.gov)
RESULTS: The driving factors for balancing overuse and underuse were education, preparing clinical guideline and standard protocols, resource allocation, using evidence-based medicine, evidence-based management and evidence-informed policy making approaches and social prescribing. (bvsalud.org)
why environmental justice matters, Wilkinson, R.C. and Freudenburg, W.R. ( Ed.) Equity and the Environment ( Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, Vol. 15 ), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. (lu.se)

The House Subcommittee on Social Security recently held hearings on the Social Security 2100 Act, H.R. 860. (foxbusiness.com)
House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Oversight, joint with Subcommittee on Social Security, Committee on Ways and Means, Washington, D.C. (house.gov)
With Neal Committee Chairman and Congressman John Larson (D-CT) serving as Chairman of the Social Security Subcommittee, the specifics of a new proposal are now a work in progress. (massretirees.com)

Building on the historic progress he's already led over the last two years, President Biden's plans for the future would continue to lower costs, increase access and open up more opportunity for hard working Americans striving to make ends meet and get ahead in today's unpredictable economy. (healthcareforamericanow.org)

More controversial is that in his reformed Medicare (which would not affect anyone currently 55 or older), vouchers would be provided for purchasing private health-care insurance. (nymag.com)
As illustrated by the figure below, the largest programs are income support -which includes Social Security- and health care programs. (brookings.edu)
The reform is expected to produce savings of around 3 billion euros from the social and health care budget. (yle.fi)
Prevention in Poland: health care system reform. (cdc.gov)
Health check : health care reforms in an international context / Chris Ham, Ray Robinson, Michaela Benzeval. (who.int)
Competing solutions : American health care proposals and international experience / Joseph White. (who.int)

The plan would reduce nearly $4 trillion from deficits over the next decade. (cnn.com)
In fiscal year 2019, the federal government spent $2.7 trillion (about 13 percent of the nation's GDP) on social insurance programs. (brookings.edu)
The House passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill Friday, but did not vote on a sweeping climate and social spending measure as originally planned. (vox.com)
The $1.75 trillion social spending bill, dubbed the Build Back Better Act (BBB), did not receive a vote, however, and won't be heading to the Senate. (vox.com)
According to the Social Security and Medicare Trustees, Social Security is facing a $13.2 trillion cash shortfall between 2034 and 2092. (foxbusiness.com)

Berner also outlined her ministry's proposal to open up the taxi market to small-scale passenger and cargo transport operators earning less than 10,000 euros a year, by letting them operate without an official permit. (yle.fi)
According to the proposal, €4.3 million would be transferred from the ministry's budget to the Health Insurance Fund (EHIF, or Haigekassa). (err.ee)

Reforms like this must be agreed upon mutually, preferably already in the government's official programmes. (yle.fi)
Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled today his government's plan to reform funding of the social care system. (carers.org)

The idea may sound expensive, but Murray calculates that it would cost less than the existing programs within a few years, chiefly due to the ballooning cost of Social Security and Medicare for the baby boom. (firstthings.com)
It's projected by the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees to increase to 5.5 percent of GDP by 2035 and 6.2 percent of GDP by 2085. (ibtimes.com)
The anchor questions Scott about how the plan would raise taxes and "potentially sunset" programs such as Social Security and Medicare. (tampabay.com)
Claims that Social Security and Medicare are imperiled are common during election campaigns. (tampabay.com)
In rejecting Scott's proposal, McConnell said, "We will not have as part of our agenda a bill that raises taxes on half the American people and sunsets Social Security and Medicare within five years. (tampabay.com)
Scott's plan mentions Social Security and Medicare once, in a section labeled Government Reform/Debt: "Force Congress to issue a report every year telling the public what they plan to do when Social Security and Medicare go bankrupt. (tampabay.com)
Under Scott's plan, all federal laws, including those creating Social Security and Medicare, would expire after five years. (tampabay.com)
The ad cites a news story that points out that Social Security and Medicare would be ended only if the laws creating them were not renewed. (tampabay.com)

The organization declares a long-term goal of modernizing national social services within the framework of four National Priority Projects: Modern Healthcare, Affordable Housing, Quality Education and Agricultural Development - as well as the Demographic Sustainability program. (wikipedia.org)
The report, titled "Thailand Social Protection Diagnostic Review", provides an extensive analysis of the current retirement provision framework and recommendations for its future evolution. (bangkokpost.com)
In particular, the aim is to improve results- based management and accountability through a simplified and robust planning framework that serves as an effective tool for accountability and transparency, programming and resource mobilization. (who.int)

The foundation supports social science research in primarily business administration, economics and economic history with diffent types of grants: programmes, postdoctoral fellowships (Wallander scholarships), grants for research exchange and dissemination of research results, scholarships for research training abroad (Hedelius scholarships). (lu.se)

On April 23, the Social Security Board of Trustees issued its annual report on the program's financial status. (cbpp.org)
Those who fear that Social Security won't be around when today's young workers retire misunderstand the trustees' projections. (cbpp.org)
As we heard from the public trustees at our June the 3rd hearing, Social Security revenues will cover only 77 percent of the benefits by 2036. (house.gov)

Curbelo did call Social Security a Ponzi scheme in his first bid for Congress. (politifact.com)
Scott's plan , which he pitched as a platform for the GOP should the party take back Congress in November, indicated support for raising income taxes on millions of Americans by saying that all Americans should pay some income tax, and half don't. (tampabay.com)
The plan would sunset all federal laws after five years, requiring Congress to renew the laws it wants to keep. (tampabay.com)
As the President pointed out, these popular reforms are all within reach if Congress agrees to other widely supported reforms like implementing a Billionaires Minimum Income Tax for the ultra rich and closing tax loopholes for big corporations that already pay too-low rates. (healthcareforamericanow.org)
The group's proposal would trigger new taxes and budget cuts if Congress fails to meet a set of mandatory spending targets and other fiscal goals aimed at reducing federal deficits. (tcf.org)
While the proposal separates Social Security from other programs, it proposes that, if efforts to reduce Social Security costs failed, the plan put forward in December by the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform-which included an assortment of benefit cuts-would go to Congress for an up-or-down vote. (tcf.org)
Over the past 20 years, Richie Neal has been among the staunchest advocates in Congress for WEP reform. (massretirees.com)

Like the PCSSS Model 3, this proposal includes voluntary personal accounts and other provisions that would assure sustainable solvency for the OASDI program throughout the next 75 years, and beyond. (ssa.gov)
Ideally, they would do so as part of a comprehensive solvency package, because the retirement and disability components of Social Security are closely woven together. (cbpp.org)

BASW England warned the proposals risked "[undermining] a system that puts the needs of people first", while the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services also raised concerns about the training of trusted assessors and how complex cases will be handled. (communitycare.co.uk)
The grant to streamline local authority adult social care assessments is worth between £130,000 and £600,000 for councils - depending on their size and level of need - and the DHSC said it would also help fund the purchase of digital tools. (communitycare.co.uk)
The department will set out further details in its adult social care plan, expected next week. (communitycare.co.uk)
The proposals echo those the DHSC set out last year to help manage the impact of its proposed adult social care charging reforms - including an £86,000 cap on care costs and an extension of means-tested support to many more people - that were then due for implementation in October this year. (communitycare.co.uk)
At the same time, the vacancy rate for council adult social workers rose from 9.5% to 11.6% in the year to September 2022 , while turnover increased from 15% to 17.1%, from 2020-21 to 2021-22. (communitycare.co.uk)
In response to the proposals, Liz Howard, professional officer for BASW England, warned: "We oppose any attempts to dilute the vital role that social workers play in adult social care. (communitycare.co.uk)
In addition, it ought to determine a plan for the overall delivery of affordable adult Jewish education, in a co-ordinated systematic way. (winnipegjewishreview.com)
If you have any doubts, just ask the people still waiting for a plan for adult social care. (smf.co.uk)

In the Bowles-Simpson plan , the co-chairmen attacked every area of the federal budget and offered ways to reform the tax code. (cnn.com)
There's no question that Social Security faces significant funding issues, but there are better ways to reform the program than increasing payroll taxes on every employer and worker. (foxbusiness.com)

The 75-year Social Security shortfall is slightly larger than the cost, over that period, of extending the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for the richest Americans (those with incomes above $250,000 a year). (cbpp.org)
And the cost of extending all of the expiring tax cuts dwarfs the Social Security shortfall, over 75 years, by two-to-one. (cbpp.org)
Policymakers and pundits cannot simultaneously claim that the tax cuts for people at the top are affordable while the Social Security shortfall constitutes a dire fiscal threat. (cbpp.org)
Social Security benefits could be subject to cuts under new legislation currently being crafted by a bipartisan group of senators. (tcf.org)

Defenders of the current Social Security system claim that huge future deficits in the program are not a cause for concern because money in the Social Security Trust Fund can be used to finance all promised benefits until 2032. (heritage.org)
Social Security Is Not Responsible For Federal Deficits. (tcf.org)

but, in a letter sent a few days ago, the organization stated that the planned reorganization of the healthcare system would require additional analysis and discussion. (err.ee)
Recent changes in the U.S. political environment have once again stirred up discussions of major reforms to the healthcare market. (milliman.com)
Interface between health and aged care services differentiates the health and social care services provided under the healthcare and aged care systems. (who.int)

Apparently there is lots of speculation that a reform proposal would draw heavily on ideas in "Option 5" from a 2002 Treasury tax reform study. (typepad.com)

This is a take away message from the lack of attention paid to tax reform at the administration's recent economic summit. (typepad.com)
the administration's actual proposal is still many months away. (typepad.com)

The plan also reaffirms a commitment to 'environmental justice,' pointing to a recently created chief environmental, social, and governance officer at Michigan Health. (campusreform.org)
Michigan's plan also reaffirms its commitment to "environmental justice" by promising to work towards "carbon neutrality," touting a recently-created chief environmental, social, and governance officer at Michigan Health. (campusreform.org)

Taddeo, the former chair of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party, attempted to link Bush's plan for Social Security to her Republican opponent, Carlos Curbelo of Miami, in a fundraising email PolitiFact Florida received Nov. 24, 2015 ( click here to read the letter). (politifact.com)

But the proposals set out today seem to prioritise rescuing a post-pandemic NHS over fixing social care. (carers.org)
And the pandemic has cruelly shown why one is needed: the longstanding political neglect of social care in England has been laid bare for all to see . (health.org.uk)
Our capstone analysis shows that social insurance plays a critical role for workers and families - both in times of crisis, as exhibited by the pandemic and ensuing economic recession, and in normal economic times. (brookings.edu)
Note that proposals not dealing with the pandemic are highly welcome as well. (lu.se)

He has repeatedly said his plan would not affect current retirees or Americans nearing it. (politifact.com)
Those assets would replace Social Security and should, on average, provide better income than retirees get now. (firstthings.com)
Most Retirees Have Minimal Income Sources Beyond Social Security. (tcf.org)
Mass Retirees officials continue to work with key Congressional leaders to pass a reform of the Social Security Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP). (massretirees.com)
Reform legislation is the best chance at putting money in retirees pockets," added Valeri. (massretirees.com)
This would provide a cash increase to retirees' monthly Social Security checks. (massretirees.com)
Future retirees (those eligible to Social Security after the new law's effective date) would retire under a brand-new Social Security formula that would proportionally calculate Social Security benefits based on covered service. (massretirees.com)

The proposal does not affect employers of low-income workforce but targets employers of highly skilled workers, professional firms etc. (wikipedia.org)
The authors of the framing paper break down social insurance into five categories: (1) education and workforce development, (2) health coverage, (3) income support, (4) nutrition, and (5) shelter. (brookings.edu)
The best way to ensure the needs of people are met is to invest in the social worker workforce and renew efforts to recruit and retain, including a national review of working conditions that are having an adverse impact on wellbeing and driving so many out of the profession. (communitycare.co.uk)

Bowles, who was President Clinton's White House chief of staff, and Simpson, the former Republican senator from Wyoming, have spent weeks negotiating with commission members about what they would need to see in a final plan to win them over. (cnn.com)
Now the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee - the direct rival to the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee that Scott chairs - is going after another plank of Scott's plan. (tampabay.com)
The ad refers not to a plan from Senate Republicans but from one Republican, Scott. (tampabay.com)
Republican Medicaid reform proposals have thus far focused on converting federal funding from the current approach of proportional federal and state financing to either block grants or per capita caps. (milliman.com)
For years Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan wowed the Washington pundit class by pushing his balanced budget proposals. (copleynews.com)

The plan is not a "Senate Republicans' plan. (tampabay.com)
The first thing to know is that Scott's plan, released Feb. 22, was proposed by him - not a group of Senate Republicans. (tampabay.com)
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee claimed that the "Senate Republicans' plan" would "end Social Security" and "end Medicare. (tampabay.com)

Paine's proposal did not fit neatly into existing radical discourses. (feasta.org)
Paine's proposal was a curious mixture of conservative property rights and radical social reforms. (feasta.org)
Weisman and Birnbaum report that reform, when it comes, may be "incremental" rather than "radical. (typepad.com)

Social and environmental issues are also intertwined with a country's economy. (forbes.com)
His party's parliamentary chair Sampo Terho echoed his objection, adding that Minister Berner was acting without the support of his populist Finns Party and thus, without the full consent of the government in not only the taxi market proposals, but also her proposals to consolidate the country's transport networks into one single entity. (yle.fi)
Social Democratic Party Chair Antti Rinne said Transport Minister Anne Berner's plans to consolidate the country's transport routes into one company would lead Finland down the path towards a market-driven society. (yle.fi)

At the launch of the MDGs in 2000, Zambia's human development indicators were weak, owing to the steady deterioration of the economic and social conditions since the mid-1970s, when prices of its main produce copper fell on the world market. (socialwatch.org)

Graeme Buckley, International Labour Organisation (ILO) country director for Thailand, Lao PDR and Cambodia, has also voiced disagreement with the proposal, saying that in some countries where subscribers can withdraw lump sums, the money is used up within five or 10 years. (bangkokpost.com)

Paine's proposal to tax land and distribute the proceeds widely rests on a basic insight from the natural law tradition: namely, the insight that there are two kinds of property, things that are created by human effort, and things that are not. (feasta.org)

Since then, ministers have repeatedly promised that plans for reform will be published this year . (health.org.uk)

Saving for retirement requires long-term planning and commitment and that is the goal of the SSF from the very beginning," he said. (bangkokpost.com)

The Green New Deal is named after Franklin D. Roosevelt's series of economic and social programs that pulled the U.S. out of the Great Depression. (forbes.com)
The proposal reflects the extent of the economic and social reforms needed to put the United States on the path of a prosperous future. (forbes.com)
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is the voice of organised civil society in Europe. (europa.eu)
It discusses economic and social issues that are of central importance to the success of the nation. (who.int)

By contrast, Skills for Care collects data annually on the number of social workers and occupational therapists in post in local authorities, who numbered 17,300 and 3,200, respectively, in September 2022. (communitycare.co.uk)
Proposals including local authorities taking greater account of R&D needs in their planning decisions," according to Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay. (europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com)

These proposals are radically contrary to Vladimir Putin's government approach. (wikipedia.org)
Mexico's government already faces the threat of international dispute settlements over its energy reforms and proposed ban of GM corn. (nakedcapitalism.com)
According to ABC News , an average family of four with a yearly income of just under $50,000 (i.e. the median household income), would pay approximately $2,725 more to the federal government in taxes under the 9-9-9 plan. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
Under Herman Cain's tax plan, some small business owners could end up paying up to 37 percent of their incomes in taxes to the federal government. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
Other government agencies and officials acknowledge that the bonds held by the Social Security Trust Fund are meaningless. (heritage.org)
In reality, the Trust Fund's holdings simply measure that one part of the government--the Treasury--owes money to another part of the government--the Social Security Trust Fund. (heritage.org)
As the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) explains, "While the Trust Funds' Treasury Securities [bonds] are assets of the Social Security program, they are also liabilities for the rest of the federal government that, when redeemed, will have to be financed by raising taxes, borrowing from the public, or reducing other federal expenditures. (heritage.org)
So the fact that the government is finally putting forward a plan for long-term funding of health and social care is to be welcomed. (carers.org)
But the government will ultimately only heap more pressure on the NHS if it fails to take this opportunity now to properly fix social care. (carers.org)
And if the government really wants to fix social care once and for all, it needs to commit a lot more to social care than just £5.4 billion of the £36 billion to be spent overall. (carers.org)
Last week, reports emerged that government would be delaying an announcement on social care reform until later this year. (health.org.uk)
The commission reported in 2011 and its core recommendation was for government to introduce a cap on individuals' social care spending (alongside a more generous means test for access to publicly funded social care). (health.org.uk)
As the Hamilton Project paper defines it, the social insurance system consists of a set of government programs that provide economic security in the short-term or provide services and benefits to improve economic opportunity in the long-term. (brookings.edu)
The British Association of Social Workers England has warned of the risks of diluting the social worker role after the government unveiled plans for more assessments to be carried out by non-social work qualified staff. (communitycare.co.uk)
And in January, the Government published its Skills for Jobs White Paper, setting out a raft of proposals, including reforms to higher technical education to encourage greater provision and take up of Level 4 and 5 courses, and Local Skills Improvement Plans to be drawn up by employers, FE colleges and other providers and local stakeholders. (smf.co.uk)
The group played an important role in the policymaking process, promoting timely situation awareness and developing science-based proposals on interventions that were promptly reflected in government actions. (cdc.gov)

The Social Security program has two serious flaws. (bostonreview.net)
The new plan includes an initiative to hire staff based on "DEI Values," while another program promises to "enhance diversity, equity and inclusion in biomedical and health sciences by recruiting 30 new tenure-track assistant professors" with "diverse social and disciplinary identities. (campusreform.org)
Finance Minister Bill Morneau wrapped up a meeting with his provincial and territorial counterparts today, saying that he could announce improvements to the Fiscal Stabilization Program as early as January - despite being told that the provinces want to see larger health transfers before they'll agree to get behind a national pharmacare plan. (cbc.ca)
Morneau refused to say if he would consider making changes to the program retroactive, insisting that his department has to examine the proposal before he makes any positions public. (cbc.ca)
In 2019, social insurance programs cut the poverty rate in half - as measured under the anchored Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) - from 22 percent before certain program benefits are counted to 11 percent. (brookings.edu)
The Social Security Reform Act would have made the program solvent, creating a $600 billion surplus while still expanding benefits, phasing out the tax on benefits, and providing an increased cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for lower-income individuals. (foxbusiness.com)
The Social Security Reform Act would have simply increased the retirement age to 69 from 67 and means-tested benefits for survivors, among other tweaks, to ensure the viability of the program. (foxbusiness.com)
Although the date when the program can no longer pay full benefits is still more than two decades away, prompt action would permit changes that are gradual rather than sudden, and allow people to plan their work, savings, and retirement with greater certainty. (cbpp.org)
After 2033, Social Security could pay three-fourths of scheduled benefits using its tax income even if policymakers took no steps to shore up the program. (cbpp.org)
To that end, I was heartened to learn of the deliberations of AARP's volunteer board, and welcome their acknowledgment that Social Security will be unable to pay benefits promised in the future, and how the program needs to be strengthened for generations to come. (house.gov)
Since its beginning, Social Security has been a program primarily financed by workers for workers. (house.gov)

Reform of the 1983 federal law is a top priority of Congressman Richie Neal (D-MA), who now serves as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. (massretirees.com)

Anders Vendt, a junior studying economics at Michigan, told Campus Reform that in his experience, U-M's DEI efforts have been counterproductive. (campusreform.org)
A leading Thai economics professor has strongly opposed a plan seeking to allow subscribers of the Social Security Fund (SSF) to withdraw lump sums from the pension scheme or use it as loan collateral. (bangkokpost.com)

And on June 2, a few days after appearing on Face the Nation, Bush told Fox News' Neil Cavuto , "Social Security - I think we need to adjust it, because life expectancy has gone up, … adjusted by retirement age going up. (politifact.com)
When asked for comment, a university spokesperson referred Campus Reform to an official Michigan news article on the plan. (campusreform.org)
Finns Party leaders, opposition party leaders and representatives of the Finnish Taxi Owners Association and ride-sharing service Uber responded to news of Transport Minister Anne Berner's transport sector reform plans on Monday. (yle.fi)
While a main topic in news discussions has been proposed reforms to health insurance exchanges created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicaid reform has the potential to affect more people than any other source of coverage. (milliman.com)

Jeb Bush's plan for Social Security is 'disastrous for seniors and raises the retirement age to 70. (politifact.com)
Congressional hopeful Annette Taddeo warned Florida seniors preparing for a Thanksgiving feast that a Jeb Bush presidency could starve their plans for retirement. (politifact.com)
For this fact-check, we wanted to know if Bush really released a Social Security plan for seniors that raises the retirement age to 70. (politifact.com)
A new United Nations report also strongly discouraged the proposal for lump-sum withdrawals by members, while recognising the current system as providing a good foundation for an adequate and sustainable retirement system in the medium- and long-term. (bangkokpost.com)

Although the Social Security 2100 Act would slightly increase benefits, it would gradually raise the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) tax, what most of us know as the "payroll tax," to 14.8 percent from 12.4 percent, split between employers and workers. (foxbusiness.com)
Without that buffer - which is set at 100 percent of the next year's estimated Social Security outlays - the shortfall would be 2.5 percent of taxable payroll or 0.9 percent of GDP. (cbpp.org)
Workers' hard‑earned payroll taxes fund the majority of the benefits Social Security pays out each year. (house.gov)

Currently, employer contributions are channeled into Pension Fund, mandatory medical insurance and social insurance, none of which can function properly. (wikipedia.org)
These funds are not set up to be pension funds, like the funds of private pension plans. (heritage.org)
The ILO said Thailand's pension system requires reform but a new proposal will likely lead to more difficulties. (bangkokpost.com)
He said that while Thailand's pension system requires reform to meet the needs of its ageing population, he believes the proposal will lead to more difficulties. (bangkokpost.com)

To most Americans, it sounds like a low tax plan. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
As you will see below, Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan will actually raise federal taxes on some middle income Americans to as high as 37 percent. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
The truth is that some Americans would end up paying significantly more taxes under the Herman Cain tax plan. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
There will always be "out" groups - e.g., recently arrived immigrants, whether Irish domestics and Chinese railroad laborers, or Somali refugees and Mexican farmhands (to say nothing of racism toward African-Africans) - that some Americans will view as undeserving of a generous social safety net. (feasta.org)

An actuary from the Social Security Administration admitted that the Trust Fund is a fiction, writing in 1990 that "in the more relevant area of actually obtaining cash to pay promised benefits in the future, the trust funds accomplish nothing. (heritage.org)

For too long, successive governments have failed to deliver a plan to fix our broken social care system, despite a rapidly ageing UK population and a steep rise in demand for social care. (carers.org)
Many councils have long used non-social work qualified staff to carry out assessments, care planning and reviews, though figures are not available for how many there are. (communitycare.co.uk)
I am going to set forth a proposal for a comprehensive study to be done by the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg with the financial support of the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba for a strategic plan for the future long term survival of our community and its synagogues. (winnipegjewishreview.com)

The province of Saskatchewan brought forward a proposal on how we can move forward with fiscal stabilization reform,' Morneau said. (cbc.ca)

Under the 9-9-9 plan, the current tax system would be replaced with a 9 percent personal income tax, a 9 percent business income tax and a 9 percent national sales tax. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
#3) The 9-9-9 plan also calls for a 9 percent national sales tax. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
The plan would upgrade all industrial and residential buildings to maximize energy efficiency and create a national smart grid. (forbes.com)
This report tracks the extent to which Zambia is making progress towards achieving the MDGs focuses on Goals 1 to 7 and assesses Zambia's national development plans, the main tools for achieving economic and human development, particularly the Fifth National Development Plan (FNDP). (socialwatch.org)
Starting in 2014, Neal and Brady have been working together with our national coalition to pass a reform of the WEP law. (massretirees.com)

The change is part of a larger plan to reform Russian social contribution system. (wikipedia.org)
That should be the starting point for any proposal for reforming our current system of taxation. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
We are concerned, however, that the plans put forward today will not go far enough in fixing social care, nor do enough to address the chronic challenges of those affected most by our broken social care system - unpaid family carers. (carers.org)
It was hardly surprising, therefore, that Carers Trust research found only one in eight carers felt they got enough support from the social care system. (carers.org)
Any reform should also make the means-tested system far more generous - as Dilnot proposed. (health.org.uk)
Under today's system, people with assets above £23,250 must pay for their own social care. (health.org.uk)
This means that the state needs to step in to protect people against social care costs, pooling risks across the population in a way that the current system doesn't. (health.org.uk)
The social insurance system also helps buffer the economy when growth falters, supporting consumer purchasing power when income growth is weak. (brookings.edu)
Prof Worawet said allowing SSF subscribers to use part of their contributions as loan collateral would be unfair and against the principles of the social security system where risks are distributed. (bangkokpost.com)
consequences of various reforms and measures within the educational system. (lu.se)

The Comptroller General of the United States recently testified to this effect: "[An] increase in assets to the SSTF [Social Security Trust Fund] is an equal increase in claims on the Treasury. (heritage.org)
Not only did he outline a plan for taxes and spending that balanced the budget and paid down the debt, he actually got the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to score the proposal, verifying his claims. (copleynews.com)

For those of us who have been lifelong supporters of gay rights, it is a difficult reform to oppose. (jonathanturley.org)

He sought major changes to Social Security and immigration laws, but both efforts failed. (wikipedia.org)
Meanwhile, she's hearing from some pro-immigration members that maybe even this current proposal does not go far enough. (boisestatepublicradio.org)

Next year, residents will vote on replacing the Affordable Care Act with ColoradoCare, a single-payer plan that works like a cooperative. (truthout.org)

South Florida needs someone who will fight for Social Security - not work to end it. (politifact.com)
Reforms should update Social Security to respect seniors' desires and abilities to work later in life. (politifact.com)
Murray put a lot of work into the budget projections, tax incentives, and transition arrangements for his plan, and he presents his argument"as in his earlier works"in pellucid prose. (firstthings.com)
And poor men would face a Doolittle effect : Like Eliza Doolittle's ne'er-do-well father in My Fair Lady, they would face more social pressure to work and take responsibility for their families because they could no longer claim to be destitute. (firstthings.com)
Dealing with shortages of social workers by hiring social work assistants or trainees - for example, those undertaking apprenticeships - who may be easier to recruit. (communitycare.co.uk)
GRISALES: Well, the current social spending bill includes work permits for any immigrant in the United States before 2011. (boisestatepublicradio.org)
Covered service refers to employment covered by Social Security vs. non-covered service from employment outside of Social Security, such as public sector work in Massachusetts. (massretirees.com)
This work intends to present an experience of TA carried out with a patient from the Dr. João Machado Hospital, in the city of Natal, and discuss the effects and results of this form of attention in the proposal of assisted discharge that was applied. (bvsalud.org)

The plan, which would raise the age of criminal responsibility for children from the current age of 10 years to 14, will be discussed at a meeting on Monday. (smh.com.au)
The 55-years-old and above voting bloc, staunchly against reforming Medicare, is a major reason reform doesn't happen. (ibtimes.com)
The implication is that Social Security can continue for another 50 years without a tax increase. (heritage.org)
They proffered changes to make Social Security solvent for 75 years and recommended that taxes and spending be capped at 21% of the size of the economy. (cnn.com)
The plan also says: "All federal legislation sunsets in five years. (tampabay.com)
It is important to point out, as well, that the number of workers paying into Social Security has been steadily declining over the years. (house.gov)
An overall comprehensive study to take the pulse of our community and map out a plan for the future has not been done here in many years. (winnipegjewishreview.com)

However, councils still face major pressures on their ability to deliver their statutory Care Act functions, due to levels of demand and shortages of social workers. (communitycare.co.uk)

While the WEP and GPO primarily impact the 6 non-Social Security states, there are groups of public employees in all 50 states working outside of Social Security. (massretirees.com)

Nevertheless, Bowles stressed that the amendments made to the original plan on the basis of members' suggestions have made it a 'better' plan, not a watered down one. (cnn.com)
The proposal is part of a series of draft amendments to the Social Security Act aimed at alleviating the financial hardship of SSF members. (bangkokpost.com)

Formas, the Swedish research council for sustainable development, promotes and supports research within the areas of Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning. (lu.se)

The 9-9-9 plan would also make sales taxes absolutely crushing in some areas of the United States. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
A survey of those families in Winnipeg who are not members of synagogues to see what if anything would make them want to join a congregation would be helpful and essential information in planning for the future. (winnipegjewishreview.com)

Most Social Security benefits" would also be taxed as income, the report says. (typepad.com)
The Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) Trust Fund will be depleted in 2032, at which point the trust fund will be able to pay 96 percent of scheduled benefits. (foxbusiness.com)
While Social Security provides a safety net to people of all ages - to young children and their surviving parents who have lost a family breadwinner, to working-age adults who have suffered a disability, and to retired workers and elderly widows and widowers - about three-fourths of its benefits go to people age 65 or older. (cbpp.org)
It is intrinsically linked to information and advice and to making sure that people are aware of options and can weigh up the risks, benefits and costs of each of them (after recovery and rehabilitation if the assessment is as a result of a hospital admission) so that if they can plan for the longer term. (communitycare.co.uk)
In Ten Reasons Not to Cut Social Security Benefits , I explain why that perspective is wrong. (tcf.org)

A UBI could help fill the gaps in US social programs that leave women economically vulnerable. (bostonreview.net)
Another reason is the current political atmosphere in Sweden, with political parties and ideologies far to both left and right on the political scale growing in popularity, feminism included, and that in China, with rapidly growing income gaps and social unrest to match. (lu.se)

Santorum runs as a social conservative, to be sure, but he is not the only-or even the most prominent-social conservative on the ballot. (thenation.com)

On social media, many liberals accused her of being a traitor to efforts to reform policing by promising to fund salary hikes for state Troopers and corrections officers. (ajc.com)

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