• Democrats moaned that it was stacked with people keen to privatise the pensions system.

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  • The first casualty may well be further reform of Brazil's deficit-ridden state pensions system.

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  • The big savings will come more slowly from a radical shake-up of the generous pensions system.

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  • The group said it wanted the government to reform the funding rules and simplify the whole pensions system.

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  • But the public-sector deficit has remained high and debt is rising, partly to finance a still unreformed public-pensions system.

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  • Dr Altmann said it was vital that ASW workers received money, in order to restore widespread confidence in the pensions system.

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  • Union leaders claim that confidence in the UK pensions system will not be restored unless they, and people in similar positions, are compensated.

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  • Its efforts to reform the pensions system and the health service only scrape at the surface of the problems they are designed to solve.

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  • Mrs Shelley says she agrees changes need to be made to the public-sector pensions system, but she feels the government may be fudging its figures.

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  • The pensions system runs a deficit of 5%-6% of GDP, leaving the government with less money to spend on health, education and housing for the poor.

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  • One reason is that as the new army of councillors (and their well-paid hangers-on) retires, it will add to the growing deficit in the state pensions system.

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  • Big changes to Brazil's creaking pensions system are certainly justified.

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  • It will make reform of Social Security harder by reducing the budget surplus that could have been used to finance the costs of moving from one pensions system to another.

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  • Britain's pensions system was once the envy of Europe.

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  • Italian governments have tinkered with the pensions system on three occasions, but have shrunk from the drastic overhaul that is needed to save Italy's greying population from old-age penury in the generation ahead.

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  • The pensions system too is in flux.

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  • Making Brazil's absurdly generous pensions system slightly less so by raising the retirement age will require congressional approval but officials working on it hope that by pushing the pain into the future there is a chance it will pass.

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  • Centre for Economic Policy Research academics, led by David Begg, have suggested that the pact should be made less rigid, with an independent body of experts deciding whether a country's deficit was due to recession or structural factors such as overspending on the pensions system.

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  • After question time, peers polish off the third reading of the Lib Dem Lady Thomas of Winchester's Disabled Persons' Parking Badges Bill, and then they move onto the second committee stage day on the Public Service Pensions Bill - a huge change to the pensions system in the public sector, which has so far not provoked major clashes in the Chamber.

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  • He proposes tax cuts that are modest by Republican standards, more than half of them targeted on the poorest taxpayers, and wants most of the budget surplus to go on financing the transition costs of reforming the Social Security (public pensions) system.

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  • His attention is focused on the old age welfare system, comprising pensions, health care, and nursing care.

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  • He also said he would introduce a radical reform of the welfare system, including pensions, but never did.

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  • It is making it ever harder to solve problems that require cross-party collaboration such as reforming America's health-care system or its pensions.

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  • Proposals for a system of portable pensions are due by June.

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  • In what has been for most politicians three months of absorption in the exigencies of the disaster, the bureaucracy has nonetheless plodded on to produce a financial restructuring proposal for the old age welfare system, particularly pensions.

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  • However Labour MP Anne Begg, who sits on the Work and Pensions Select Committee at Westminster, said the government's pension credit system was addressing the issue and "lifting poor pensions out of poverty".

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  • And his manifesto includes proposals to simplify the tax system and reform state pensions.

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  • GDP, breaking the link between the minimum wage and pensions, and reforming the pension system, Brazil's version of welfare for the rich.

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  • Mr Ralfe based his calculations on what a typical 40 year-old public sector worker would expect to receive in pensions in retirement under the older system and under the new system.

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  • So the pre-funded scheme he wants to set up to provide second pensions for all alongside the state system, while designed to produce the required revenue through normal investment channels, also has some all-singing, all-dancing features meant to turn it into an instrument for improving the world.

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