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DSWD willing to cut cost of cash dole program for poor
Laoag :: Philippines | 10 months ago
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program, which is proposed to be budgeted at P44.5 billion in 2013. Senator Franklin Drilon has proposed cutting the administrative costs, from the current 10 percent to 7 percent of the CCT, to cover more beneficiaries. If approved, the estimated P4.
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Austerity Britain: the people affected by cuts to frontline services
Southampton :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
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A manager of a foodbank in Poole (the one pictured is in Coventry) says they are seeing more people on low incomes. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Lorraine Russell, foodbank manager, Poole "Before, the primary reason [for needing
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National Insurance Institute CEO: We must get haredim off welfare
Ramat Gan :: Israel | 10 months ago
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Shlomo Mor-Yosef says that the large number of welfare recipients harms the people who really need help. July 12 10:02, Shay Niv "A person who brings himself to such a state, or who is brought to such a state, is shocking by every measure,"
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Labour attacks work programme 'chaos' after forecasts revised
London :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
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Andrew Yates/AFP/Getty Images The government's flagship employment scheme is facing an "almighty mess", Labour has said, after a revision of official forecasts showed 1 million fewer people would be eligible. In the latest blow to the work programme,
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Palace downplays fears local politics may mar cash transfer program
Manila :: Philippines | 10 months ago
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Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said the Aquino administration placed safety mechanisms in the program to make sure the poor avail of the funds. Hindi 'yan magagamit sa eleksyon because the system as we designed it walang input from
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Big families mean big welfare dollars
California City :: CA :: USA | 10 months ago
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Sunday Jul 15, 2012 Taxpayers are forking out $2000-plus a week to a select group of benefit-dependent parents with more than 10 children. Official figures show that twelve families on welfare have 10 or more kids, receiving a range of top-up
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GREEN: Food stamps for votes
Washington :: WA :: USA | 11 months ago
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Welfare to work is the cornerstone of a reform passed in 1996 by a Republican Congress and signed by Bill Clinton . The Obama administration on Thursday announced it was taking steps to gut this landmark law. The theory behind welfare reform was
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Obama's Imperial Presidency Guts Welfare Reform
Toronto :: Canada | 11 months ago
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Not content to stop at rewriting immigration policy, education policy and energy policy, yesterday, President Obama's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an official policy directive rewriting the welfare reform law of 1996. The
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£16m paid out in benefits error
London :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
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16m overpaid to claimants Disability living allowance is paid to two million people of working age About £16m has been wrongly paid to people on disability living allowance and attendance allowance, the Department of Work and Pensions has said.
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Training for single mums, disabled women
Shanghai :: China | 11 months ago
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In three months, the centre has trained 10 single mothers and five women with disabilities. They were presented with Certificates of Attainment in Garment Construction last week. The graduates, who initially were dependent on social welfare allowance,
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