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Budget 2025: Looking back at tax relief measures for senior citizens in 2024

As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman prepares to present her eighth Union Budget on February 1, 2025, senior citizens are hopeful for meaningful tax reforms. NOTABLE REFORMS IN BUDGET 2024 Last year’s budget introduced several changes tailored to senior citizens. ITR FILING MADE SIMPLER Section 194P, introduced in Budget 2024, simplified the tax filing process for senior citizens aged 75 and …

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2 days, 20 hours ago

Budget 2025: Is it high time to hike India's military spending?

India Today

From the Russia-Ukraine war and the Israel-Hamas conflict to the Bangladesh instability and Afghanistan-Pakistan tensions, global peace is in short supply. With conflicts reaching Indian borders, the question arises: is it time to raise the defence budget, which has consistently been below 2.5 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product? For the first time since 2009, military expenditure went …

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5 days, 1 hour ago

Budget: Trade unions seek pay parity, higher pensions, social security

Live Mint

New Delhi: Trade union leaders on Monday urged the government to take measures to boost employment and productivity, increase pensions for those covered by the Employees' Pension Scheme, the immediate constitution of the 8th Pay Commission in pre-budget consultations with the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Niranjan Hiranandani, managing director of Hiranandani Group, and Chairman of the National Real Estate Development …

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5 days, 3 hours ago

January 2025 payment dates for benefits and pensions as DWP to launch PIP consultation

The Independent

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January 2025 payment dates for benefits and pensions as DWP to launch PIP consultation

The Independent

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January 2025 payment dates for benefits and pensions as DWP to launch PIP consultation

The Independent

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1 week, 2 days ago

Pension funds in better shape after good year for investments

NL Times

Dutch pension funds are in better shape than a year ago, research agency Aon has determined. Pensioenfederatie, the organization representing 156 of the country's pension funds, calculated last month that pensions were increasing at roughly four out of five pension funds. The funds also want to retain sufficient buffers for their transition to the renewed pension system. Pensions will indeed …

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No plan to evict families living near canal areas: Dr Ponguru Narayana

Deccan Chronicle

Tirupati: Minister for municipal administration and urban development Dr Ponguru Narayana has assured residents that the government has no plans to evict poor families living along the embankments of the Sarvepalli and Jafar canals in Nellore city. The minister affirmed that under the leadership of Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu, the NDA government is focused on improving the state's economic …

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1 week, 3 days ago

No Plan To Evict Families Living Near Canal Areas: Minister

Deccan Chronicle

Tirupati: Minister for municipal administration and urban development Dr Ponguru Narayana has assured residents that the government has no plans to evict poor families living along the embankments of the Sarvepalli and Jafar canals in Nellore city. The minister affirmed that under the leadership of Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu, the NDA government is focused on improving the state's economic …

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AP offering social security pensions to 64 lakh – the largest among states: CM

Deccan Chronicle

Vijayawada: Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has said Andhra Pradesh that gives social security pensions to 64 lakh persons at the rate of Rs 4,000 per head per month surpassed all other states in this respect. AS part of this, we restored the 198 Anna Canteens to feed the poor and we would set up a few more canteens if …

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Teachers, nurses and civil servants ‘could be offered higher pay for lower pensions’

The Independent

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Pensions will be distributed to the beneficiaries' houses, not in office: Chandrababu Naidu

Deccan Chronicle

Vijayawada: Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said that he had come into the public only to share their grievances. The CM toured in Yallamanda in Palnadu district and distributed pensions to the beneficiaries. Addressing a gram sabha, he said: "Now, we are distributing pensions coming to your doorstep. Naidu said that people could consider him as their best friend and …

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DWP benefits payments: December 2024 dates for Universal Credit and pensions

The Independent

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The New Year Honours list 2025 in full: Every person celebrated this year

The Independent

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Newly granted widow pensions to be disbursed on December 31: Kondapalli Srinivas

The Hindu

The State government has streamlined the distribution of social security pensions provided under the NTR Bharosa scheme to benefit a larger number of people, says Kondapalli Srinivas, Minister for Rural Poverty Eradication In a statement, he said that the practice of granting new pensions every six months has been discontinued. Minister Srinivas highlighted that Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu announced during …

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1 week, 6 days ago

I want to forget my nightmare 2024 - I was left close to despair by Mum's cancer death and my own very expensive divorce, by the Mail's wealth guru JEFF PRESTRIDGE

Daily Mail

On New Year’s Eve, I intend to dance the night away with friends at a hotel in Berkshire. Mum’s funeral was beautifully choreographed by my younger sister Joy – a tribute to a life well-lived rather than an occasion for mourning. Sorting out Mum’s estate proved tricky and time-consuming – not easy when, right up to her death, she had …

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2 weeks ago

Nearly £1 in every £4 raised in council tax is spent on 'unjustifiably generous' staff pensions

Daily Mail

Nearly £1 in every £4 raised in council tax is now being spent on 'unjustifiably generous' staff pensions, it has been revealed. These showed the local authorities paid £5billion into their staff pensions last year, which was an average of 23.5 per cent of their council tax revenue. Hampshire County Council paid the single largest amount into its staff pension …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

DWP benefits payments: December 2024 dates for Universal Credit and pensions

The Independent

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

ROS ALTMANN: There should be a hardship fund for Waspi women who suffered most

Daily Mail

Ros Altmann is a former Pensions Minister who now sits in the House of Lords. The Government has disappointed millions of 'Waspi' women by refusing to pay any of them anything, despite the Parliamentary Ombudsman finding of maladministration in the way state pension age changes were communicated. The Government says it can’t afford to pay billions of pounds to women …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Millions to Get Bigger Social Security Checks If Biden Signs New Bill

Live Mint

Millions of Americans may see their Social Security benefits increase under a bill headed to President Joe Biden’s desk — though critics warn that the measure comes at the cost of pushing the fund further toward insolvency. If signed by the president before the new Congress convenes on Jan. 3, the law would boost Social Security payments to more than …

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Waspi women have been shamelessly betrayed by Labour

The Independent

As a Waspi woman, I am tired of the changes to our pensions being muddled by press and politicians. Anne Robson Wiltshire Waspi women have proven their worth The Labour government says the taxpayer cannot afford to compensate Waspi women for state pension changes. A high proportion of Waspi women either didn’t do paid work, or worked part time for …

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Here's why 2025 could be start of the 'Great Downsizing,' says ANDREW OXLADE

Daily Mail

Britain faces many pressing financial challenges. Rents have surged by about 28 per cent in four years, taking the average monthly cost to £1,330, says the Office for National Statistics. Andrew Oxlade says the 'Great Wealth Transfer' could begin in 2025 Buying your first home has always been hard. You also pay less than the full 40 per cent rate …

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DWP benefits payments: December 2024 dates for Universal Credit and pensions

The Independent

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3 weeks, 2 days ago

As a ‘cuspy Waspi’ woman, I have another reason to be furious with Labour’s pensions betrayal

The Independent

I’ve always been pleased that I was born at the end of the Fifties. The final blow came yesterday when the work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall announced that we would get no compensation from the government for the changes, despite previous support from Labour politicians who backed the Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign. The first plan to change …

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Budget 2025: Looking back at tax relief measures for senior citizens in 2024

Budget 2025: Is it high time to hike India's military spending?

Budget: Trade unions seek pay parity, higher pensions, social security

January 2025 payment dates for benefits and pensions as DWP to launch PIP consultation

January 2025 payment dates for benefits and pensions as DWP to launch PIP consultation

January 2025 payment dates for benefits and pensions as DWP to launch PIP consultation

Pension funds in better shape after good year for investments

No plan to evict families living near canal areas: Dr Ponguru Narayana

No Plan To Evict Families Living Near Canal Areas: Minister

AP offering social security pensions to 64 lakh – the largest among states: CM

Teachers, nurses and civil servants ‘could be offered higher pay for lower pensions’

Pensions will be distributed to the beneficiaries' houses, not in office: Chandrababu Naidu

DWP benefits payments: December 2024 dates for Universal Credit and pensions

The New Year Honours list 2025 in full: Every person celebrated this year

Newly granted widow pensions to be disbursed on December 31: Kondapalli Srinivas

I want to forget my nightmare 2024 - I was left close to despair by Mum's cancer death and my own very expensive divorce, by the Mail's wealth guru JEFF PRESTRIDGE

Nearly £1 in every £4 raised in council tax is spent on 'unjustifiably generous' staff pensions

DWP benefits payments: December 2024 dates for Universal Credit and pensions

ROS ALTMANN: There should be a hardship fund for Waspi women who suffered most

Millions to Get Bigger Social Security Checks If Biden Signs New Bill

Waspi women have been shamelessly betrayed by Labour

Here's why 2025 could be start of the 'Great Downsizing,' says ANDREW OXLADE

DWP benefits payments: December 2024 dates for Universal Credit and pensions

As a ‘cuspy Waspi’ woman, I have another reason to be furious with Labour’s pensions betrayal