Labor to block seniors&#39; rebate
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LABOR will combine with the minor parties to vote down John Howard&#39;s $445 million pre-election sweetener of increasing the private health insurance rebate to more than a million older Australians.
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A plan to send $500-$1,000 rebates to all but the richest taxpayers advanced in the Senate Wednesday after Republicans and Democrats teamed to add aid for disabled veterans, the elderly and the unemployed to a House-passed economic recovery bill.
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Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. said on Wednesday it would freeze pensions and require salaried retirees in the United States to contribute more for health coverage to cut costs.
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The telecom company cuts medical benefits for its retirees.
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Gov. Janet Napolitano dipped into a fund used for health emergencies to help promote the state&#39;s prescription-drug program for seniors, a move that has come under fire because she pledged not to use taxpayer money to advertise the discount cards.
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Rights at work for those who care for relatives who are elderly or have disabilities, could be strengthened later.
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A much-anticipated deal between the White House and once-warring House leaders to speed tax rebate checks to workers starting in May has the Senate in a bind over whether to try to add to the measure.
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SHANGHAI  - Thousands of retired textile factory workers in an eastern Chinese industrial centre blocked traffic in a weekend protest over the failure of their pensions to keep pace with rising prices, officials and labour advocates said Monday.
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Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. said  on Wednesday it would freeze pensions and require salaried  retirees in the United States to contribute more for health  coverage to cut costs.
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PLANS to give more than one million elderly Australians higher rebates on their private health cover insurance look certain to be defeated in the Senate.
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Most people have no plans to put money aside to pay for the extra care they will need in old age, a survey suggests.
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The fate of $600-$1,200 rebate checks for more than 100 million Americans is in limbo after Senate Republicans blocked a bid by Democrats to add $44 billion in help for the elderly, disabled veterans, the unemployed and businesses to the House-passed economic aid package.
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Democratic lawmakers will propose banning private Medicare insurance plans from door-to-door sales pitches after some seniors complained that they were pressured or misled into enrolling in the wrong plans.
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Australia&#39;s opposition Labor party has promised free health care for anyone over 75 as it launched its campaign for the 9 October federal elections.
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Most U.S. employers are planning to  further scale back health benefits offered to retirees, as  companies struggle with the upward march in the cost of medical  care and weigh increased contributions from government&#039;s  Medicare program, a survey found.
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Treasurer Peter Costello said Labor&#39;s Medicare Gold policy for older Australians would never be implemented. Mr Costello predicted the cost of Labor&#39;s plan for free hospital coverage for all people aged 75
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The day is coming when the Social Security system won&#39;t be able to pay retired Americans, a nationally known economist warned Wednesday while visiting Decatur.