welfare bill
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwelfareandbill
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welfare
noun[U]
uk/ˈwel.feər/us/ˈwel.fer/
help given, especially by the state or an organization, to people who need it, especially because they do not have ...
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bill
noun
uk/bɪl/us/bɪl/
a request for payment of money owed, or the piece of paper on which it ...
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(Definition ofwelfareandbillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Ultimately, no spending caps were incorporated either in the final version of the 1996welfarebillor in the 1997 balanced budget agreement.
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The currentwelfarebillis running at about £6,500 million a year.
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It is a fact that thewelfarebillin 1997 was £92 billion.
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We must continue to work to reduce thewelfarebill.
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We heard nothing about a reduction in thewelfarebill, which is still rising.
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Clearly, therefore, although there may be a need to reduce thewelfarebilloverall, the intention of clauses 53 and 54 cannot be to achieve that.
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When will he do as he promised and come forward with welfare reform that actually reduces thewelfarebill?
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The past decade has seen thewelfarebillrising and rising from £50 billion in 1979, adjusted for inflation, to over £92 billion in 1997.
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We are deluding ourselves if we imagine that we can meet the inevitably escalating demands of the future by relying on steeply rising taxation to pay the socialwelfarebill.
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Experts in such matters say that we could save some £6 billion a year on ourwelfarebill.
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The more effective the service is in dealing with illegal immigration, the more we save on thewelfarebill.
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A spin-off gain would be a reduction in thewelfarebilland probably a reduction in crime, much of which is related to unemployment.
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Many of the greatest problems being faced today—rising crime and an enormouswelfarebill, to name but two—arise from the breakdown of marriage.
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It is the single biggest cost for the taxpayer, totalling 23.8billion in 2013-14 - almost 30% of the entirewelfarebill.
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Instead, he is taxing people's pensions to pay for his failure to cut welfare bills.
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The welfare reform that reduces the welfare bills is tackling social and economic failure.
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Where is the radical plan to reduce welfare bills?
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He said that he wanted to cut welfare bills and encourage personal provision.
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We all know that the reverse has happened: the welfare bills will increase substantially.
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Labour is the party of soaring welfare bills and falling police numbers.
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