After years of mismanagement and overspending the health ministry is under pressure to make cuts to the social funds which cover the cost of most drugs.
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Greek social security funds hold nearly two-thirds of their liquid assets in government bonds.
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Currently, Social Security funds run a surplus that helps to finance other parts of government.
The court heard that Saxonis was responsible for forwarding to social security funds the contributions from council workers' salaries.
In particular, Quigg cited increasing interest by the privatized social security funds in the Andean region of South America.
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He also vowed to "fix Social Security, " refusing to rule out raising the retirement age or allowing some Social Security funds to be invested in the stock market.
Less than 10% of the workforce has access to some type of social security funds, which means prudent investing is the only way most Indians are able to retire.
Progressives who support the right of fifteen year old girls to make decisions about abortion without parental notification do not trust these same girls later in life to make their own investment choices with their Social Security funds.
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Although there is still limited empirical evidence on the relative performance of socially responsible investing in comparison to conventional investing, one 2000 study concluded that social mutual funds perform no better or worse than conventional mutual funds.
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Dr. Lin has created a crowd sourcing model where patients and their families can raise funds through social networking, use those funds to sequence a genome using services such as IGS, partner with geneticists willing to help interpret the results, and then make the case to pharmaceutical companies to pursue novel treatments based on solid biological data.
Entrepreneurial and managerial success, in turn, reinforces social success, as they provide the funds for pursuing social causes, e.g.
Central to Mr Bush's short-term problem is what the disappearing surplus means for the social security surplus, the funds set aside for future Social Security, or pension, payments.
Some money might equally well go into the social-security funds of immigrants' sending countries.
In theory, the Medicare and Social Security trust funds have at least some money to pay a portion of the bills that are coming due.
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On top of that, the cut in the payroll tax that funds Social Security will expire, meaning those same middle class families will get hit twice.
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His proposal scraps the entire existing code, including capital gains, interest and dividend income, the estate tax, and the payroll tax that funds Social Security and Medicare.
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What is more, say Ms Johnson's people, she would only support investing Social-Security funds in the stockmarket if payouts remained guaranteed, which is basically Mr Maloney's position.
"I believe they have an affirmative obligation to come up with spending cuts or new revenue to prevent us from raiding the Medicare and Social Security trust funds, " said Conrad.
On January 18th, the general assembly of the French Enterprise Movement, known as Medef, decided by a vote of 96% to withdraw from the joint management with the unions of France's social-security funds.
But a third reason is that the 35-hour week is already the terrain for political warfare, with the employers' federation, for example, threatening to abandon its joint administration with the unions of France's social-security funds.
Democrats argued that Bush's broad energy plan would force the government to dip into the federal budget surplus, or the Medicare and Social Security trust funds, which, they predict, will be strained enough by increased numbers of beneficiaries in the next few years.
They were lent to the federal government and spent on other government programs, from foreign aid to bridges to nowhere, with the Social Security trust funds receiving only internal federal IOUs promising to pay the money back when it is needed to pay benefits.
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But some Democrats are wary of any change to the payroll tax, which funds the Social Security program.
There is hardly a government not announcing funds for social entrepreneurs these days.
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The government plans to chip away at the high payroll tax that funds various social programs such as health care.
Under each main heading are 6 to 10 subtopics, ranging from Asset Allocation to Vanguard funds to Social Security to annuities.
Indeed, for private and public pension funds including Social Security, investing in healthcare companies could be the ideal natural hedge to their growing liabilities.
At that bottom end of the scale, retired and unemployed Americans rely far more on safety nets: the lowest-earning fifth of the population gets 48% of its yearly income from retirement funds like Social Security, and 9% from public assistance programs like food stamps.
The deficit in income taxes has been financed by borrowing, largely from the Social Security and Medicare trust funds.
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If so, he is a genius who should immediately be put in charge of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds.
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