Minimum Wage or Living Income?

Special purpose Programme support income

Under his government, two million homes received electric power for the first time, 11 million very poor families gained the support of a minimum income (the Bolsa Família), the minimum salary grew 45 in real terms, thus benefiting 42 million people.

Support for disabled persons Income generation

The Act respecting income support, employment assistance and social solidarity was amended to require Individualized Integration Programs to be subject to minimum work standards, except for exemptions established by regulation.

The Support Services group provides support to all PSD income generating activities.

The Agency created 2,037,886 days of temporary work under its direct hire programme and community based infrastructure and construction projects to help beneficiaries maintain minimum levels of income and support their families.

Each month the Child Support Agency passes on income support to 300,000 children.

Students who receive a loan are not required to make repayments until their income exceeds a minimum threshold.

Some states use a Guaranteed Minimum Income system, in which all members of a state receive sufficient income to live on, so long as they meet certain conditions.

At the same time, there have been efforts to raise the level of earned income by setting minimum wage legislation. But the minimum wage has never reached the floor set for a living income and has not, therefore, appreciably reduced the bill for wage subsidies.

The State party explains that the purpose of the Social Security Act is to guarantee a minimum income to those who have no or insufficient income of their own.

In addition, 343,598 was received as programme support income and 123,647 as other income bringing the total income for the year to 769,934.

11 De minimis support designates minimum permissible trade distorting domestic support not exceeding 5 per cent of total agricultural production.

Personal income compensation is determined as a minimum of 80 per cent of base compensation, and it cannot be lower than the minimum salary in the month for which it is determined.

The Concept On Ensuring the Minimum Income Level to the Poorest Inhabitants was developed and adopted on 8 February 2000.

Sometimes, the issue of social exclusion will be more important to tackle than, say, providing a minimum level of income.

1. Investment decisions should be taken with the minimum of delay in order to forestall avoidable losses on interest income.

The problem of reduction of poverty has been dealt with, for example, by introducing a parental wage, reducing the income tax, raising the minimum tax exempt income, indexing of pensions, etc.

It is provided to individuals (families) whose average per capita income is below the poverty line (40 of the subsistence minimum).

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Table 2. Estimates of support cost income for the fifth cycle

Income from programme support costs (3 726 482) (3 726 482)

This net increase represented a significant increase in programme support income from peace keeping operations, partially offset by a decline in programme support income for technical cooperation activities.

(c) Outsource fixed income investments and real estate investments to achieve broadened coverage of fixed income and labour intensive analysis for real estate with the minimum number of in house portfolio managers

Operational budget income from support cost earned from technical cooperation delivery and other income amounted to 9.3 million in 2004.

As a rule, single persons sharing a household on a non commercial basis receive 60 per cent of the minimum wage income.

A court may refuse to order support or may reduce the amount to less than half of the minimum monthly wage or terminate payment of support if a parent ordered to pay the support is incapacitated for work, or a child has sufficient income, or other good reasons as established by the court become evident.

Support NGOs shown to work effectively with marginalized and low income communities.

The Income and Employment Supports Act also integrated Income Support benefits with Employment and Training benefits to provide a coordinated system of supports to assist low income Albertans.

This will result in an additional 10 million in income support to low income families in 2004 2005 and 2005 2006.

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In addition, the Work Premium is better harmonized with other income support programs.

Support for women's income generating activities, for 2.91 billion in 1998 and 2001.

Total support cost income earned by OPS in 1992 amounted to 30 million.

Note 3 provides details on the use of UNDCP programme support cost income.

6. During the biennium, the income from contributions to support costs was 7,105,134.

The survey revealed that those who suffer income cuts due to temporary disability receive income support in 50.9 per cent of the countries, while those whose disability is due to on the job injuries or accidents enjoy income support in 29.8 per cent.