There would be no automatic increase tied to inflation as Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver had sought.
On the fiscal cliff, Republicans accepted a compromise on tax rates in order to avoid an automatic increase in all income tax rates.
This is the second year in a row that retirees and others receiving Social Security will go without an automatic increase, which they had received annually since 1975.
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George Osborne has been looking at securing the headlines this year by scrapping a much hated tax: the so-called "beer tax" - the automatic 2% increase above inflation in alcohol duty - which both the Sun and the Sunday People have campaigned to see the back of.
Also driving the automatic dialers is an increase in shareholder activism.
Electrical frequencies and voltages drop as power line currents increase, necessitating automatic or manual interruption of loads (blackouts) to protect grids.
Real ale campaigners and the brewers - both large and micro - had raised concerns over the impact of the beer tax escalator, which imposed an automatic annual above-inflation increase on a pint.
About 93 percent of 3, 040 large U.S. hospitals used one or more day lighting or lighting conservation features, including tinted window glass (80 percent), reflective window glass (39 percent), external overhangs or awnings (47 percent), skylights or atriums designed to provide light (57 percent), automatic controls or sensors that increase or reduce lighting in response to the level of natural light (14 percent), and occupancy sensors that reduce lighting when rooms are unoccupied (46 percent).
As for the rest of this year under the debt limit deal, the Super Committee and Congress could actually meet the requirements to avoid the cuts of the automatic sequestration trigger without a tax increase by adopting the Ryan budget.
In addition, a report on private-sector jobs growth for March compiled by Automatic Data Processing and Moody's Analytics showed an increase of 158, 000 jobs on the month, well below the 192, 000 expected.
Scottish Conservative chief whip John Lamont said the Scottish government should "focus on ending automatic early release, which would not only keep the public safer but increase the prospect of a prisoner completing their rehabilitation".
Indeed, it is not much of a stretch to suggest that these rules are the reason we have seen the widespread adoption over the years of employer matching contributions, automatic enrollment, automatic escalation of contributions, and numerous other innovations in the retirement plan space that have been shown to increase saving.
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The eventual aim is to increase that figure to between six and nine million people by the end of the 2018, by when automatic enrolment will cover all employers.
The IRS has a withholding calculator that can help you determine the correct amount, (click here.) If you make an adjustment, be sure to capture the increase in your paycheck and put those dollars to the best use, whether it is setting up an automatic transfer from a checking to a savings account or increasing your retirement plan at work.
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