Public sector workers are facing a five-year pay freeze under plans to cut the spending deficit.
And, like other public-sector workers, the police already face a two-year pay freeze from September.
Today, the President made one of those: proposing a two-year pay freeze for all civilian federal workers.
On January 8th the chancellor offered, or threatened, to conclude three-year pay deals with some of them.
In the column of five-year pay totals, nine-figure sums are not unheard of.
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This suggests scope for a real cut in public pay of around 5%, which could be delivered through a two-year pay freeze.
It comes days after President Obama proposed a two-year pay freeze for federal government workers as part of efforts to reduce the US budget deficit.
Last week, local government employers tabled two pay offers which could end the three-year pay freeze covering 1.6 million council workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
This week's strikes are probably a blip: multi-year pay deals have settled most of the tricky public-sector pay questions and there is scant sign of wage pressures in the private sector.
It is difficult to envisage wages taking off when the public sector is shedding jobs and facing a two-year pay freeze and there are 2.5m people unemployed, close to 8% of the labour force.
Among money-saving measures outlined by the chancellor were a 1% cap on public sector pay for two years, once the current two-year pay freeze ends from 2013 - Mr Osborne said the government "cannot afford the 2% rise assumed by some government departments thereafter".
Although Chancellor George Osborne increased the bank levy in last week's Autumn Statement, the unions say the public sector is bearing the brunt of measures to rebalance the public finances with workers facing a new 1% cap on pay rises after the current two-year pay freeze ends in the Spring.
The ILIT will borrow money each year to pay the life insurance premiums for that year.
Stournaras expressed the hope that the country will be able to return to markets at the end of next year and pay an interest rate of below 6 percent for its 10-year bonds, as both Ireland and Portugal, another two bailed-out countries, have done recently.
The five- and 10-year Treasuries pay a mere 1.8% and 2.9%, respectively.
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Even when it was running annual surpluses, close to 90% of the money coming in was paid out within the year to pay current benefits.
He said doctors were helping save the NHS billions, were in the midst of reform in England and faced a fourth year of pay freezes.
But here's what I'm sure of: Not everybody took Cravath up on this peachy keen opportunity to do anything for a year with pay and benefits.
But if at a certain point it leads -- somebody is making a million dollars a year to pay no taxes at all, that's a problem.
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Fourteen percent of Ohioans and 17 percent of Floridians say they used up all or most of their savings in the past year to pay medical bills.
Remember, the overall European economies are all declining at the same time as almost every country is borrowing and printing more and more money each year to pay their bills.
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But the following year his pay was almost nil.
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The Social Security Administration now offers a window of one year to pay back Social Security benefits or their benefit amount is set (which of course means reduced ) for their lifetime.
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It also calls for a three-year freeze pay for civilian government workers (including non-military personnel at the Department of Defense) and members of Congress, a 10% reduction in the federal workforce by 2015 and elimination of earmarks.
"It is therefore with special pride that I take this opportunity during my Jubilee year to pay tribute to Canadians everywhere and to thank you for the support and affection you have given to me over these past 50 years, " she said.
Museum staff worked for a whole year without pay before they lost every hope last October, gathered one more time at the fountain in the museum's botanical garden, threw a coin into it and made a wish that the institution will reopen soon.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the 1984-5 strike, the miners endured more than a year without pay, were vilified by parts of the London media and were the victim of some fairly unjust and even brutal tactics at the hands of the authorities.
For them, real change means: supporting abortion on demand without apology, abandoning traditional marriage between one man and one woman, embracing government growth as the key to American success, agreeing to higher taxes every year to pay for government expansion, and endorsing the enlightened policies of European socialism.
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