The Pension and Welfare Benefit Administration shares jurisdiction over these plans with the Internal Revenue Service.
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It is promising tax cuts for low and middle-income households, as well as increased state pension and welfare payments.
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Even France's conservative president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is unwilling to damage social cohesion (and risk trouble in the streets) by pushing hard for labour-market, pension and welfare reforms.
The demographic shift will present huge challenges to countries' welfare, pension and healthcare systems.
This is as much as the government now spends on all welfare and pension programmes, or a seventh of all state spending this year.
The UK, they argue, is being held back by an excessive public sector, substantial public sector pension liabilities and a welfare system which does not provide sufficient incentives to work.
Mr Osborne said pension, education and welfare reform was helping to make the UK a more competitive economy, while cuts to corporation tax and higher-rate tax were making the country a more attractive place to do business.
It is the object of endless lectures about taxes and wages that are too high, welfare and pension benefits that are too generous, east German states that have become subsidy junkies and a labour market that is irredeemably sclerotic.
Reforms to the taxation, healthcare, pension, and social welfare systems helped Slovakia consolidate its budget and get on track to join the EU in 2004 after a period of relative stagnation in the early and mid 1990s and to adopt the euro in January 2009.
Mr Robinson said such a stance had been evident on welfare reform, pension reform and parades.
We have employment contracts, lending contracts, pension agreements, annuities, welfare, taxes, and, more broadly speaking, the prices paid for goods and services.
At the same time, old age pension, medical, and nursing welfare costs are growing at JPY 1 trillion a year.
The biggest chunk of welfare is providing the state pension.
GDP, breaking the link between the minimum wage and pensions, and reforming the pension system, Brazil's version of welfare for the rich.
After all it was that arch-reactionary, Otto von Bismarck, who introduced the world's first welfare system, including the old-age pension, in Germany in the 1860s.
In addition to questionable pension plans, the IRS said Alexander oversaw creation of sham welfare-benefit plans, which are similar to pensions but fund other perks such as medical insurance and death benefits.
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He has carefully narrowed any differences between Labor and the coalition on economic policy, focusing instead on issues where he has managed to steal the agenda from Mr Howard, such as children's welfare and reforming an unpopular, overly-generous parliamentarians' pension scheme.
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While Labour was quick, after it was elected in 1997, to seize upon the welfare problems presented by an ageing population, its first initiatives focused on private pension provision.
The basic state pension, first introduced in 1908, is one of the sacred cows of Britain's welfare state.
The state pension begins at 65, but after a day labourer turns 55, says Takao Yamauchi, who runs a local welfare centre, his chances of picking up work are slim.
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