Its total administrative expenses are less than one percent of total benefit payments.
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The office would determine eligibility and authorize benefit payments, according to the campaign.
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The database was originally set-up to streamline welfare benefit payments and reduce wastage.
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Trump's proposed budget would end the Individual Unemployability benefit payments to retirement-age veterans.
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Incomes were also held back by drops in dividend and social security benefit payments.
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Nine percent said they actually saved money because of decreased turnover or benefit payments.
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He also froze most working-age benefit payments in cash terms from 2016 to 2020.
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Instead, this bill simply shifts the timing of existing benefit payments, making it largely budget neutral.
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There are some spending proposals that are not funded, such as ending the cap on benefit payments.
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If benefit payments exceed payroll tax revenue ($70.6 billion in 2015), the government must borrow the difference.
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The senators are calling for $200 increase in the monthly benefit payments through the end of 13.
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Homelessness charity Shelter urged the government to increase housing benefit payments and commit to building decent, affordable homes.
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For every $2 you earn above that threshold, the Social Security Administration deducts $1 from your benefit payments.
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With inflation rising, partly due to the weaker pound, the real value of benefit payments is eroding fast.
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Through this coverage, she received lump-sum benefit payments that she was free to use as she chose.
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Total contributions into the funds also dipped, from both employees and government employers, while benefit payments rose slightly.
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The $218 billion fund is rapidly being depleted, and administrators recently cut benefit payments by up to 29%.
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Benefit payments themselves totaled nearly $1 trillion in 2018, and they contribute nearly $1.6 trillion in economic impact.
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The company said Mr. Kelvin would not be receiving any salary or benefit payments related to his resignation.
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He said Dino is taking advantage of the boost to Polish retail spending from the conservative government's child benefit payments.
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Even her nine-year-old, she explains, knows that her child benefit payments drop on the 20th of each month.
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A government plan to cut housing benefit payments for people under age 21 will be a "straightforward disaster," he said.
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Air traffic control, federal prisons, and Social Security and other benefit payments also generally keep functioning as normal during shutdowns.
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In that scenario, the government will deduct $1 from your benefit payments for every $2 you earn above the annual limit.
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Plans would also be drawn to reduce the "child benefit" payments to workers whose children have not accompanied them to Britain.
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She needs to pass a German language test, prove she does not need benefit payments and fill in lots of paperwork.
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The Poles and others are grumbling about an "emergency brake" that allows Britain to restrict benefit payments to working EU immigrants.
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One likely criticism is that new parents who take this tax credit would have slightly reduced benefit payments in future years.
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They won't go crazy with the country's economy and will encourage more people to get jobs by keeping low benefit payments.
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The military, air traffic control, federal prisons, and Social Security and other benefit payments generally keep functioning as normal during shutdowns.
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"The simplest way to address this issue is for VA to get these benefit payments right in the first place," he said.
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"The government will take the necessary steps to ensure that benefit payments continue as of tomorrow," El Khomri said in a statement.
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Absent legislative reforms before then, Social Security will become "insolvent" and benefit payments will be automatically cut by an estimated 23 percent.
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So if more people live or die within a certain age group, that would affect how their benefit payments rise or fall.
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In 2016, Austria transferred 273 million euros ($325 million) abroad to EU and European Economic Area countries in benefit payments for 132,000 children.
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Every two weeks it's swamped with drug users and dealers at midnight as drug users transform fresh benefit payments into heroin in seconds.
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CBO's 2009 projection for 2016 was $317.5 billion, but CBO's 2017 report indicates $2023 billion in Medicaid benefit payments were made in 2016.
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Health-care spending has skyrocketed — Medicare benefit payments exceeded $730 billion in 2018 and account for nearly 15 percent of all federal spending.
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Most of the tensions surrounded a relatively minor change: a move to suspend or restrict benefit payments made to workers from other EU countries.
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Hundreds of thousands of veterans had reportedly received smaller GI Bill benefit payments than they were owed after computer problems delayed GI Bill payments.
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That applies up until age 70, at which point your benefit payments will automatically restart, but with bigger checks than you were previously receiving.
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"Claimants are using an app on their phones through which they are receiving and spending their benefit payments," Freud said, according to a press statement.
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Women also tend to receive reduced benefit payments due to lower pay, time out of the work force and the higher probability they will longer.
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Business Briefing The federal government recorded a budget surplus in January of $55.2 billion, helped by a timing quirk that shifted benefit payments to December.
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The number is probably closer to $5,000 if more realistic investment returns are assumed and if projected benefit payments are discounted at a sensible rate.
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In Texas, 6,400 federal employees filed claims for unemployment insurance, according to the Texas Workforce Commission, and more than 600 had begun receiving benefit payments.
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For example, next year China will step up efforts to collect social-benefit payments and shift the way they are calculated, resulting in higher costs.
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The company was paying £9.5m a year into the scheme but making no dent in the deficit; benefit payments in the most recent year were £19.6m.
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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia criticized Austrian plans to cut benefit payments for children living abroad on Tuesday, saying the step may discriminate against Slovaks working in Austria.
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Social Security is one of the largest economic engines in the U.S. because beneficiaries largely spend their benefit payments, which go right back into the economy.
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A 2010 law granted citizenship rights to ethnic Hungarians in nearby countries like Romania, including the ability to vote and to access Hungarian social benefit payments.
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Employee pensions are protected through the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, which takes over the pension benefit payments in case of bankruptcy, although payments could be smaller.
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Instead, it ripples across the economy, boosting the incomes of those who receive government contracts or benefit payments, who then go on to spend and invest more.
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The report said the US government should expect to spend at least $29 trillion in benefit payments and disability claims for veterans in the years to come.
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Almost half of the food bank referrals made last year were the result of a delay in benefit payments under the Universal Credit system, the charity said.
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"Under the current practice, a VA finding that concludes a veteran requires a fiduciary to administer benefit payments effectively voids his Second Amendment rights," the senators wrote.
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The large jump from a year ago reflected calendar shifts, which had made the 2015 deficit look smaller because $36 billion in benefit payments were shifted into February.
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So if you already have an account, a criminal who obtained personal information, like your Social Security number, couldn't create one to try to steal your benefit payments.
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The plaintiffs want the court to take oversight of a new contract, which needs to be settled urgently if April's benefit payments are to be made on time.
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The survey found 14 percent of Britons believed 30 percent of all UK child benefit payments went to children abroad, 100 times the actual level of 0.3 percent.
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While the military, Social Security and other benefit payments typically aren't affected, the impacts of a prolonged shutdown are real — and they will hit hardest for low-income Americans.
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In addition, the city could offer incentives for early retirement and delay for another year any repayment plan for its deferred pension and health benefit payments to the state.
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Day-to-day responsibility for operating Association Retirement Plans — such as asset management, benefit payments, governmental filings and other regulatory matters — would be in the hands of the associations.
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The Department of Labor would lose funding for programs meant to help seniors and at-risk youth find jobs while getting more money to prevent improper unemployment benefit payments.
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It has already raised child benefit payments and promises to lower the retirement age and cut personal taxes, although economists warn that increased spending could threaten Poland's public finances.
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And they usually cap annual benefit payments at $1,000 to $1,500, notes Beth Truett, chief executive officer of Oral Health America, a nonprofit group that advocates for better dental health.
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The OASDI program currently provides benefit payments to 163 million people — 43 million retired workers and dependents; 6 million survivors of deceased workers; and 11 million disabled workers and dependents.
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The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, a federally chartered entity, will step in when a plan fails so that retirees' benefit payments — up to a maximum level defined by federal law — continue.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) told congressional staffers on Wednesday that it will not repay veterans who received smaller GI Bill benefit payments than they were owed, NBC News reported.
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By completely dominating the policy conversation, putting an inordinate focus on benefit payments, and frowning on new practices, the "Big Six" have had the effect of stagnating national approaches to veterans.
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Cameron said if Britons decided to remain in the EU, he would seek continued reforms to address their concerns about job losses and benefit payments to EU migrants seeking work in Britain.
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The very same state governments make Medicaid benefit payments directly to doctors (as does every health insurance company), yet these states do not construes themselves to be the doctors' employer of record.
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Those who do not yet receive benefits can obtain estimates of future payments and check their annual earnings statement to make sure that their benefit payments are calculated using the correct information.
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According to the PBGC's 85033 annual report, there are 1.5 million people that receive benefit payments from the PBGC because they were a part of failed single or multi-employer pension plans.
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"For the months of January and February, my department is on mandatory overtime of 20 hours a month" to correct widespread delays in benefit payments caused by computer glitches, said Steve Willenberg.
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Limiting every federal government worker to a certain amount of years on the job would be a good start to avoiding pension and benefit payments accrued over a lifetime on the job.
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The acceleration was probably driven by a pick-up in investment and gains in consumption that were supported by record-low unemployment and new child benefit payments introduced last year, analysts have said.
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The ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party implemented a generous new child benefit payments programme earlier this year and some analysts said that many families used the cash to reduce their consumer debts.
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Until now, national regulations have made it difficult for the authorities to stop benefit payments to a suspected militant, even if the person had been identified by the intelligence services as an ISIS fighter.
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The two programs make up the bulk of federal spending, and trust funds that support benefit payments are projected to become insolvent within the next 10 to 15 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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On one doorstep, a Brexit voter said he intended to back Duffield, despite his reservations with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, partly because she helped his ill grandson retain the benefit payments he had stopped receiving.
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Additionally, the company has reached an agreement with Metropolitan Life Insurance to annuitize an additional $512 million of its pension liability, under which the insurer will pay future pension benefit payments to roughly 20,000 retirees.
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Iain Duncan Smith, a former welfare secretary (and no liberal), has called for the government to look again at the freeze on benefit payments, whose "purpose was not to have such a dramatic effect on incomes".
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"In the near future, the sum of new contributions plus existing fund assets will not be able to meet benefit payments," said S&P's Tan, adding that Taiwan's National Health Insurance was potentially a bigger concern.
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Levine used a low-cost variable annuity from Jefferson National in her calculations that showed investors could use the product to generate as much benefit payments as those who waited to claim Social Security at 70.
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Austria's ruling coalition of conservatives and the far right started indexing the child benefit payments to living costs in January as part of a broader package of tax cuts and reductions in benefits for refugees and immigrants.
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"Even during a year of significant economic uncertainty, HOOPP remains fully funded, which means that we have sufficient resources to meet all of our current and future pension and benefit payments," said HOOPP Chief Executive Jim Keohane.
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"Once the VA determines that a veteran requires a fiduciary to administer benefit payments, the VA reports that veteran to the gun ban list, consequently denying his or her right to possess and own firearms," Grassley wrote.
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Social Security mostly wasn't designed to save up for future benefit payments, although it does have a few trillion dollars in a trust fund saved up from the years when it took in more taxes than it spent.
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Because of the backlog, the department announced Wednesday that it would delay the bill's housing allowance changes until next year, also pledging that veterans who received incorrect GI Bill benefit payments would eventually be paid the correct amount.
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"That's why in the long term, we're urging the government to ensure benefit payments reflect the true cost of living and work is secure, paying the real living wage, to help ensure we are all anchored from poverty."
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's welfare department is making benefit payments to 17 million people across the country after a court battle involving the service provider averted a fiasco that had put their entitlements at risk, officials said on Monday.
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"With the scheduled 2019 tax rate decrease, our moderate case simulation suggests that expected revenue will likely be insufficient to cover combined black lung benefit payments and administrative costs, as well as debt repayment expenditures," the GAO report read.
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Social Security is asking callers to the toll-free line to "please be patient," and cautions that phone representatives will be focusing on urgent requests, such as missed benefit payments, address and direct-deposit changes, and scheduling phone appointments.
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It is also going against economic grain in a similar way Hungary has in recent years, proposing to cut the country's retirement age, increase child benefit payments and make banks swallow costly Swiss franc loans they sold in the past.
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Because of the backlog, the department announced earlier Wednesday that it would delay the bill's housing allowance changes until next year, while also pledging that veterans who received incorrect GI Bill benefit payments would eventually be paid the correct amount.
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Prosecutors allege that Boling then worked with Crawford to recruit individuals who would accept the deposit of stolen funds — including millions from military members' bank accounts and veteran's benefit payments — into their bank accounts and then send money through international wire remittance services.
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The American Federation of Musicians and Employers' Pension Fund, a large multiemployer plan covering thousands of musicians, is currently considered "in critical status," and if its condition worsens, it could trigger a rare move to cut the benefit payments for those already retired.
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Creating a digital account is a good idea, if only to prevent someone else from fraudulently creating one first and using it to steal benefit payments in the future, said Mike Litt, consumer campaign director with the United States Public Interest Research Groups.
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An OIG investigation conducted with the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation led to the conviction in 26 of a Miami man for creating more than 28 fraudulent MySSA accounts, and redirecting roughly $700,000 in benefit payments to bank accounts he controlled.
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"With the scheduled 2019 tax rate decrease, our moderate case simulation suggests that expected revenue will likely be insufficient to cover combined black lung benefit payments and administrative costs, as well as debt repayment expenditures," according to the report from the non-partisan GAO.
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"With the scheduled 2019 tax rate decrease, our moderate case simulation suggests that expected revenue will likely be insufficient to cover combined black lung benefit payments and administrative costs, as well as debt repayment expenditures," according to the report from the non-partisan Government Accountability Office.
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The wonder is how crazily, improbably alive it all is: this world of slag heaps and council houses, of unemployed miners and women stuck at home with their "weans," forced to supplement weekly benefit payments by prying open the electric meter and reclaiming the coins therein.
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Unlike Angela Merkel of Germany -- also a conservative -- who refused to bow to the far right's baiting, Kurz promised Austrians that he will further curb immigration, limit benefit payments to refugees and block newcomers from receiving social assistance until they have lived in the country for five years.
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The Obama administration's final reckoning on spending and taxes for 2016, which was jointly released by Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew and the budget director, Shaun Donovan, showed increases in spending for veterans benefit payments, the health programs Medicare and Medicaid, and for interest payments on the nation's debt.
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It also would inject federal funds into the agency — perhaps $3 billion annually — to expand its partition program, which allows it to take on benefit payments to so-called orphans — people who earned benefits from employers who have dropped out of plans, often because they have gone out of business.
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Solvency II capital ratio of 158 pct * Total benefit payments to policyholders of 902 mln stg in 2015 and the company now insures benefits for 227,160 individuals * Assets under management increased 20 pct from 12.8 bln stg to 15.4 bln stg * Market consistent embedded value (MCEV) of 1,445m stg, an increase of 19 pct
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Though the military, air traffic control, federal prisons, and Social Security and other benefit payments typically aren't affected, the Office of Management and Budget estimated that the shutdown resulted in 120,000 fewer jobs and cut economic growth by 0.2 to 23 percent in the last quarter of 2013, the last time the government shut down.
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Under the regulation, the Social Security Administration was required to submit anyone to the federal background check database if they received assistance managing their benefits from a representative payee -- meaning the person has been formally determined unable to manage their own benefit payments alone -- and also had a mental impairment that limits their ability to work.
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The VA has had a hard time figuring out how to implement those provisions, and that's led to a number of issues, including delayed and miscalculated benefit payments to student veterans in need of that money for housing because of IT problems at the VA. The VA has said it will delay implementing the changes until its computer issues are fixed.
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Former President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso has said that he doesn't think British Prime Minister David Cameron's attempts to renegotiate Britain's relationship with the EU will do anything to slow down migration to the UK. Speaking on the BBC's Newsnight programme last night, Barroso dismissed the idea that the "emergency brake" on in-work benefit payments in Cameron's renegotiation would work.
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Third, while the bill should be commended for its fiscal responsibility, as it would increase payroll tax revenues by $85033 trillion and benefit payments by $817 billion over a decade, the large payroll tax increase for Social Security may hamper efforts to maintain Medicare hospital insurance, which also depends on the payroll tax and is projected to be unable to fully pay providers after 2026.
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