New taxes, rising unemployment and cuts to pay, pensions and social welfare provisions have brought many ordinary Greeks to their knees.

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But even I am learning new Social Security provisions over time.

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Much work remains to be done, from the reform of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to boosting social-security provisions.

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Six days later, the Supreme Court upheld the old-age-insurance provisions of the Social Security Act.

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The unions want the government to protect jobs and improve provisions for a social safety-net.

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The onerous nature of these and other COPPA provisions explains why social networks have tended to shun the young.

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These reductions and increases are explained more completely via the tables in this article that provides further explanations of the provisions of the Social Security system.

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These assurances, coupled with a stronger social safety net and employment provisions (see article), may help lift some of the deflationary fog that has lain heavy over Japan for so long.

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One of the biggest barriers has been the lack of well-enforced social security and health-care provisions.

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The European Community regards the protection of consumer data as a basic human right, one whose legal provisions, (The Right to Be Forgotten), grant legal provisions implemented in practice within the social and online context of European consumer behavior.

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Both provisions show the folly of trying to conduct social policy through the tax code.

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However, his key provisions--extending rebates for those who receive Social Security and disabled vets--remained intact.

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In the Lords (starting at 3pm) it's Day 11 of the Health and Social Care Bill Committee Stage - looking in detail at the provisions on provider regulation, licensing and pricing - some amendments may be pushed to a vote.

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Whoever was in power after the next election, the committee said, should establish independent commissions to examine how pension and savings provisions could be increased, how equity release could be better exploited and how funding for social care could be improved.

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