Further, the rules governing many of these benefits have become increasingly more complex, with Congress drawing a zigzag line (sometimes a disconnected line) on which side of a potential benefit a taxpayer will fall.

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True, as Labour points out, some of the fall in measured unemployment reflects a decline in benefit claims due to the tough eligibility rules of the new Jobseeker's Allowance, introduced last year in place of the old Unemployment Benefit.

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Although users of oil may benefit and oil prices may fall, pipelines will still continue to do exceedingly well.

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They will also benefit from the sharp fall in the price of oil.

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As a result, the seasonally adjusted figures in the fall should benefit from a smaller number of construction layoffs, not so much because construction is growing, but because the workers who would normally be laid off in the fall were never hired in the spring.

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But unless all of the costs fall on the top 5 percent who benefit from the rate cut, any reduction in tax expenditures must raise taxes on low- and middle-income households.

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And while other sectors of the energy complex, such as natural gas and oil appear set to benefit from the fall from grace that uranium is facing, the situation in Japan has created an inflection point in the market.

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The recently introduced Jobseeker's Allowance, with its tough test of a claimant's availability for work, has also led to a sharp fall in benefit claims.

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