The guarantee implied in a typical defined-benefit scheme is not the sort of risk that a company should be expected to incur.
The further cuts are needed because of changes in the council tax benefit scheme and increases in the cost of waste disposal and transport, it is claimed.
In its first two years, the government has pushed through an unemployment-benefit scheme, measures to reduce tax evasion, new labour rights, and laws liberalising capital and financial markets.
Currently he said, local authorities were reimbursed for any unforeseen expenditure and government grant met the full cost of the benefit scheme, as part of the overall national scheme of welfare benefits, which was the responsibility of the Department for Work and Pensions.
Mr Meacher visited Boreland Farm, near Stonehenge to see one of the areas to benefit from the scheme.
Welsh ministers are also examining whether injured armed forces personnel could benefit from the scheme.
Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Ross County supporters could benefit from the scheme, according to organisers.
Other locations to benefit from the scheme include Caernarfon, Dolgellau, Menai Bridge, Porthmadog, Pwllheli, Ebbw Vale and Tredegar.
Secondary schools Ernesford Grange Community School and Alice Stevens Special School are also to benefit under the scheme, with President Kennedy School to undergo privately-funded renovations later, a spokesman said.
Mr Corry said that although there were many social enterprises that would benefit from the scheme, many charities would not, because they had no revenue stream that could be used to repay the funding.
Those who benefit from our relief scheme will be the ones who deserve it the most.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the scheme would benefit more than 200, 000 people initially, and would cover the entire country by the end of 2013.
Mr Cereste said the scheme could benefit people in Peterborough.
It said the 10% cut in funding for council tax benefit was because of a government scheme that requires all councils to take responsibility for such benefit from April 2013.
Only 22% of the cars produced in Britain are sold there and only 14% of those bought in Britain are made there, so a scrapping scheme would mostly benefit firms abroad.
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Before National Insurance was introduced, people how had the benefit of a good company pension scheme did not contribute to the state pension.
Richard Glover QC, appearing for the site owners, told Judge Sycamore that if the compulsory purchase order (CPO) threat was lifted, the claimants intended to bring forward development proposals that would be "of significantly greater benefit to Margate than the CPO scheme".
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When the first wave of former East European states joined the EU in 2004, the UK was one of just three existing members that did not bring in any temporary work restrictions - instead the UK introduced a Worker Registration Scheme to prevent "benefit tourism" by EU migrants coming to the UK for less than a year and claiming benefits.
But despite the concerns of staff, local health bosses and the government maintain the scheme has the potential to benefit patients.
More than 180 homes and businesses at risk of flooding from the River Greta will benefit from the Environment Agency's scheme.
Villagers are uncertain when they might benefit from a new health-insurance scheme that the government says will be available in 80% of rural counties by 2008.
Republicans and Democrats worked together to set up the Planning Board scheme so that everyone involved would benefit.
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There are also doubts about high-speed rail's ability to boost regional economies: the government itself expects the scheme to generate almost as much benefit inside London as outside it.
Some soldiers did benefit from the Good Friday Agreement early release scheme, but ironically they were the so called "bad apples" who carried out crimes on behalf of either the UVF or the UFF, so therefore came under the aegis of the 1998 Northern Ireland Offences Act.
Much of the commentary has focussed on the treatment of former paramilitaries who have been able to benefit from the two-year early release scheme provided under the Good Friday Agreement, and the contrasting fate which awaits any former soldiers or police officers facing charges for crimes committed before 1998.
The UK opened up its labour market in 2004, but introduced a Worker Registration Scheme (WRS) to prevent "benefit tourism".
Alec Robertson was ousted as leader because of his support for the original scheme to run services like libraries and benefit payments.
The Canal and Rivers Trust, which advises on proposals affecting inland waterways, had backed the scheme because it would increase competition and benefit canal users.
Two-thirds of the 18m pensioners in the state scheme for private-sector workers get a benefit equal to the minimum wage.
But while the level of fraud has increased overall, the scheme found that in the area of housing benefit, the value of overpayments has reduced.
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