Greece had the biggest burden of pension spending. France had the biggest burden of health spending. Belgium had the biggest burden of redistribution spending. Today, let’s look at an even narrower slice of the social welfare state. According to a new article in the Economist, Germany arguably...
Work abroad can help boost your Irish state pension Andersen’s return shows the power of a strong brand, for better and worse Neil Woodford: the resurrection no one asked for Against this background, any hint of progress in female equality is welcome. And as it happens, things are looking...
State pension to rise by more than £400 Apple launches new artificially intelligent iPhone "The Irish position has always been that Ireland does not give preferential tax treatment to any companies or taxpayers." The response described the ruling as only of "historical" significance because, sin...
Environmentalism,Government intervention,Government stupidity,nanny state,Regulation, taggedEnvironmentalism,Government intervention,Government stupidity,nanny state,Regulationon February 17, 2024|11 Comments » Bureaucrats must have a knee-jerk desire to make citizens miserable. That’s the most logical explan...
-Covid era, the number of digital nomads continues to grow. In 2024, 18.1 million said they were digital nomads, people who embrace a location-independent, technology-enabled lifestyle that allows them to combine travel and working remotely. Some of the growth was due to the enforced rise ...
Effective 1st January 2024, all pensioners on the SSNIT Pension Payroll as of 31st December 2023, have had their monthly pensions increased by fifteen percent (15%). This translates to ten-point-zero-five percent (10.05%) effective increase for the highest-earning pensioners, and thirty-six-...
Not only do they lose their pension, but the loss of their security clearance renders them unemployed and unemployable in the intelligence community. Like with Thomas Drake, Bill Binney, Kirk Wiebe, Franz Gayl, and numerous GAP clients, these life-long public servants have had their security ...
80-82. Society (2024) 61:263–274 267 It provided smaller benefits than Beveridge recommended to his great disappointment. By 1950 one million pension- ers needed means-tested National Assistance to supplement the pension, which was still not enough to live on, and they have needed supplements...
In 1986, the basic pension for all Japanese began, partly to alleviate the burden of the national pension system, and pension benefits were reduced. In the 1990s, the age at which one could receive a pension began to rise, and medical co-payments increased. Since 2003, co-payment of the...
“New York’s pension system was designed over a century ago—and it wasn’t designed for this,” said Ken Girardin, research director. “The prescription here is for Albany to put future hires in a more modern, more flexible retirement plan such as the ones offered to SUNY faculty, or ...