Others offered insurance-based pre-payment 'provident' arrangements to those on higher incomes, a development which coincided with the growth in private pay-beds.
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Thus, over the next decade, seven sector-basedprovidentfunds were transformed into pension funds.
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The suggestion, then, is that the greater visibility of cash plan products promoted byprovidentand commercial insurers may now be boosting scheme membership too.
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That power is absolute, thoughtful of detail, orderly,provident, and gentle.
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Only those who work in the public sector or for large private companies have benefits such as pensions andprovidentfunds.
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The benefits of the new mandatory private centralprovidentfund scheme implemented since 2000 is in fact unclear.
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It also makes an assumption that social enterprises are small, which is not true of many industrial andprovidentsocieties.
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A dramatic growth in the number ofprovidentfunds led to worries concerning the viability of the small plant-based provident funds and a lack of coverage for temporary workers.
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Employee and employer payments to non-state pension funds andprovidentfunds are defined as private spending.
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Alongside this, wage-earners covered by collective agreements were generally members of either pension orprovidentfunds, while state employees were covered by a pension programme, fully funded from state revenues.
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The authors are frank about the many failings of pensions programmes andprovidentfunds in the region, including very low rates of population coverage, maladministration and corruption.
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Protestantism would endorse this process by sanctifying desire as virtuous ambition, and by treating the market as a realm ofprovidentopportunity.
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I am sure that easing the burden of regulation on smaller industrial andprovidentsocieties will be welcomed by the co-operative movement.
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The amounts of corporation tax paid by industrial andprovidentsocieties during financial years 1986–87 to 1989–90 are shown in the table.
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The basis of charge for industrial andprovidentsocieties is the trading profit, less loan interest.
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