Dozens of state benefits are pegged to the RPI, but officials have promised that handouts such as jobseeker's allowance and housing benefit will at worst be frozen.
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Adding fuel to the fire, those handouts have been shrinking.
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The government expects the economy to grow as much as 5.5% this year, and rising wages and government cash handouts have kept Malaysian consumers flocking to malls and other retail outlets.
Perhaps its handouts will have to evolve into the stock option more familiar in Silicon Valley.
In turn, the armed forces have haughtily declared they will no longer take cash from the United States (on whom they have long depended for handouts).
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While we avoid over-generous welfare handouts, we have substantial state subsidies for education, health care and public housing.
For his part, Bank of America's head, Ken Lewis, by now consumed with buyer's remorse, may have known more about the handouts than he let on.
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The second main reason for Qatar's political stability is that the country's nationals enjoy a range of generous state handouts, which have swelled under the rule of the current emir, Emir Hamad bin Khalifah Al Thani, who overthrew his father in 1995.
Yet while originally intended to jump-start those industries, these handouts and other charities have yielded only entitlement-dependency.
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This internet thing just gives them a slightly larger voice than the mimeographed handouts of old would have done.
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Republican governors such as Chris Christie of New Jersey, Rick Scott of Florida and Scott Walker of Wisconsin have taken pride in rejecting federal handouts for transport schemes they consider white elephants.
Government handouts tend to go to the people who have least need of them.
But the good news is that you won't necessarily have to accept the fees printed on the glossy marketing handouts.
Mr Nourbakhsh claims that the money will be spent neither on pre-election handouts nor on the grandiose industrial projects that have been a weakness of some previous governments.
All handouts, from jobless aid to disability benefits, have become less generous, more short-lived and harder to qualify for.
People in the poorest fifth are the least likely to have any kind of ration card (the key to public handouts), whereas the richest fifth are the most likely to.
The Democrats have turned themselves into the party of suburban complacency, against welfare handouts but in favour of middle-class safety nets.
When we pay for those handouts, we, the sponsors, own those programs, and have every right to determine their usefulness and fates.
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Are you confident now that the European leaders are going to own this firewall or bailout fund themselves, not looking for handouts from other countries, and that they will do what they have to do?
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"They've got more funds available because of the Premier League handouts, so they would probably pay more wages and the manager would have a bigger budget to work with, " added Jenkins.
Zimbabweans have been reduced to subsistence (some survive on roots and berries), barter, and remittances and handouts from abroad.
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