Also made MBE is Wyn Evans, who receives the honour for her work as a motorcycle racing welfare worker.

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Employers, who normally share with the worker welfare costs amounting to nearly 42% of gross wages, would pay a flat-rate contribution of 25% on jobs up to euro400, reduced to 12% for mini-jobs (cleaners and au pairs, for example) in private households.

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Brenner got a social worker to help Hendricks apply for disability insurance, so that he could leave the chaos of welfare motels, and have access to a consistent set of physicians.

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Ms. Voskresenskaya, a former dairy worker, met her husband, Alexei Zaitsev, while they worked on a farm, according to welfare officials in the region and Mr. Akimkin, the family friend and attorney.

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