7) an unemployment benefit

The major aim of the inclusion of prisoners in the unemployment scheme was to ensure their reintegration into society.

Typically, unemployment benefits last only six months.

Section 66a of the Austrian Unemployment Insurance Act provides that persons who serve a prison term and comply with their duty to work are liable to pay unemployment benefits, so that the respective period may be counted towards their eligibility for unemployment benefits after their release.

In other words, entitlement to unemployment benefits is ceasing to be a social right.

The United States Government provides subsidies to the public education system.

With regard to governmental measures, the system of family allowances will be developed further in Hungary.

It is time to turn our unemployment system into a reemployment system that puts people to work.

In order to improve aspiring business owners prospects, some countries have begun to offer start up subsidies to unemployed workers, sometimes in lieu of unemployment benefits.

When structural barriers to employment have diminished, unemployment benefits should revert to their old norms.

In the United States in recent years, federal and state legislatures prolonged unemployment benefits as joblessness persisted.

In an extended balance sheet recession of this type, unemployment benefits need to be substantial and prolonged.

Whenever an economy enters recession, revenues fall, and expenditures say, for unemployment benefits increase.

Growth itself increases tax revenues and reduces the need for social expenditures, such as unemployment benefits.

Fifth, the higher the unemployment rate goes, the wider budget deficits will become, as automatic stabilizers reduce revenue and increase spending (for example, on unemployment benefits).

In 2001 the ratio of unemployment benefits against the total expenditures constituted 0.39 of GDP.

Some people still think of wage subsidies as a welfare hand out. But these subsidies are very different from social assistance and social insurance programs.

That number captures only a fraction of the problem, since 80 of the global workforce is in the informal sector, without any unemployment benefits or other social protection.

Mrs. Zwaan de Vries applied for continued support on the basis of the Unemployment Benefits Act, once the payment of her unemployment benefits under the Unemployment Benefits Act were terminated on 10 October 1979.

Workers who lose their jobs receive only 39 weeks of limited unemployment benefits, and are then left on their own.

An individual today, faced with the option of working 20 hours a week or drawing unemployment benefits, might be tempted by the latter.

Its citizens do not receive unemployment checks from Brussels the way that, say, Californians do from Washington, DC, when California experiences a recession.

The worst kind of subsidies export subsidies would be eliminated.

More immigration would strengthen skills and raise income levels, while reducing distressed countries expenditure on unemployment benefits.

An individual today, faced with the option of working 20 hours a week or drawing unemployment benefits, might be tempted by the latter. But, back in the 1930 s, before unemployment insurance, 20 hours was better than nothing.

The Bonfire of the Subsidies

4) a maternity benefit

5) a sickness benefit

Why? They are worried by the talk of pension reform, changes in the health system, and new eligibility rules for unemployment benefits.

76. The Estonian Minister of Social Affairs focused on the current level of unemployment and explained the system of unemployment insurance.

In 2001 the average number of recipients of the unemployment benefit per month was 45.5 thousand people, the average insurance contribution wage from which the unemployment benefit was calculated in 2001, was 117.61 LVL and the average unemployment benefit amount granted in 2001 was 40.55 LVL (see the table).

Moreover, the usual automatic stabilizers of unemployment benefits and reduced income tax collections will do nothing to offset this fall in demand, because it is not caused by lower earnings or increased unemployment.

If each US state were totally responsible for its own budget, including paying all unemployment benefits, America, too, would be in fiscal crisis.

It is not subsidies to a few companies.

Lowering taxes on the poor and raising unemployment benefits while simultaneously increasing taxes on the rich can stimulate the economy, reduce the deficit, and reduce inequality.

In virtue of the Unemployment Act she was granted unemployment benefits.

Mostly older workers belong to this category who, due to the break in their seniority, are not eligible for pensions or unemployed benefits, as deadlines for registration have passed.

Furthermore, a large part of its remaining resources had to be used for unemployment relief and other forms of compensation as approximately half of the population came to be on relief.

The Committee is concerned that the social security system in HKSAR does not include unemployment benefits.

Subsidies are another major problem.

Housing and fuel subsidies have been reduced.

8) a benefit for families with children.

Specifically, a variety of social contracts for example, health care and pension entitlements, as well as unemployment benefits will come under greater strain.

The Joblessness Threat

Unemployment grew.