In Wednesday's budget, Gordon Brown said he would extend this and introduce tax relief to benefit both low- and large-budget UK films.
Politicians cannot be trusted to resist the temptation of balancing the budget by underfunding defined benefit plans.
The only item that looms larger than disability benefit in the social-security budget is spending on the elderly, which accounts for 42% of the total.
There has been some reshuffling between households: the increase in child benefit announced in last year's budget was paid for by a cut in the married couples' tax allowance.
These include the correlating benefit of IT having more time and budget to spend on innovating and moving their business forward, as well as the availability of the massive computing capacity, which cloud services deliver.
The minister, who was replying to a Lords debate on affordable housing on 8 July 2010, said the review of housing benefit had, like cuts to the budget of the Homes and Communities Agency, been "based on the economic situation".
The UK government has put local councils and the devolved administrations in charge of the benefit, but it has also cut the budget by around 10%.
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN) -- Democratic presidential contender Wesley Clark on Monday unveiled a sweeping tax plan that he said would benefit 31 million families without increasing the federal budget deficit.
Mr Cameron chose to give his first "what-I-would-do-running-my-own-government" speech on the specifics, quite detailed specifics, of how he would do more to reduce the welfare budget (again: cuts to housing benefit and benefits for out of work parents).
Ultimately, Congress must enact a regulatory budget to ensure that we achieve the greatest benefit for the least cost across the board.
Among the budget measures are a reduction in council tax benefit, increased fees and charges for services and integrating the council's mental health team with Berkshire Hospital Foundation Trust.
It said the cost of the grants would be offset by cuts of 35% to the university teaching budget, while institutions would be expected to benefit from additional income generated by charging higher fees to students from England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Batman is so popular, too, that a series like this could keep production costs low and not run the risks of trying to depict a more elaborate Batman world and costumes, effects, etc, leaving all of that to the big-budget films, but the show would still benefit from the Batman connection and probably be very popular with mainstream audiences.
The critics on the right are judging Mr. Ryan's budget according to Congressional Budget Office estimates that assume little or no economic benefit from better policy.
If these criminal justice resources are redirected to better uses, such as targeting violent crime, Californians may still benefit, but this will not show up in the state budget.
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And Redpath, who will continue to take charge of the backs, will have to turn around results without the benefit of a recruitment drive as the Gloucester are operating under budget constraints.
And in our budget we have a proposal to give the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation the ability to set premiums, which are now very low, in a way that matches the default risk.
Giving evidence to the Welsh Affairs Committee on 20 July, she admitted that there would be cuts "right across the board", but that Wales could benefit from the coalition's plans to protect the health budget.
But campaigners say real progress was made between 2000 and 2010 and have expressed concerns that this could be endangered by cuts to the welfare budget - including curbs on tax credits and housing benefit caps - central to the coalition's deficit reduction plan.
The Windows 8 launch budget guarantees attention during Q4, but users will only benefit fully from the new OS if they buy PCs with touch screens, which will significantly increase the purchase price.
President Bush says he wants to do something about the long-term budget deficit, about the fact that the government has promised benefit programs that it can't afford to pay with existing tax revenues.
One reason for Mr Jobs's short fuse may be that Apple's relatively skinny research and development budget has to work much harder than those of competitors who benefit from the huge spending of Microsoft and Intel.
The lesson for China of Japan's policy change - the result of an unprecedented budget deficit - is that foreign investors may not give the benefit of the doubt to Chinese New Deal infrastructure plans next year if private consumption and investment fail to pick up.
There were three further divisions on Budget measures which the government also won, including those on child benefit changes for the higher paid and on income tax changes.
While WAG intends to protect its "universal" policies, such as free prescriptions and concessionary fares, other changes in areas such as housing benefit have led the Institute of Fiscal Studies to suggest that the June 2010 budget cuts and service reductions will impact disproportionately on those that are most vulnerable.
John Graham, appointed as America's top regulator at the Office of Management and Budget in 2001, had previously been an academic who used cost-benefit methodologies to analyse risks.
Over in the Lords (from 2.30pm) questions to ministers range across assisting families facing homelessness as a result of housing benefit, and representations received from the public on the negotiations for the new EU budget.
Imagine if he went to the floor (in Jimmy Stewart or Spencer Tracy fashion) to offer a powerfully symbolic piece of legislation -- for example, a balanced budget amendment to highlight the deficit issue or sweeping homeland security and veterans benefit legislation.
The measure would not reach balance, but it would undo automatic budget cuts that started taking effect this month and largely leaves alone rapidly growing benefit programs like Medicare.
In future, councils may have to work within a fixed budget, set by the Department for Communities and Local Government, for council tax benefit.
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