Minister unveils Â£67m boost for care homes
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Media & professional: Cash intended to improve facilities and allow residents greater privacy.
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A leading pensions research group says the basic state pension could rise to Â£105 a week without any extra cost.
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WASHINGTON A new government report shows that shedding a light on nursing home practices may help improve patient care. The Bush administration findings show improvement in key measurements of nursing home
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A new study confirms that the drug benefit being added to Medicare will provide significant help to elderly people with low incomes or very high drug costs.
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By Charlotte Gill  SENIOR savers can earn more than 6pc before tax following the latest moves from Coventry Building Society and Northern Rock.
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Consumers boosted their spending in July by the largest amount in six months, offering hope that the current economic slowdown may not be as severe as some had feared.
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Poorer pensioners will get an extra Â£4 a week from April - or Â£6.10 more for couples - according to figures in the Pre-Budget report.
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Councils are urged to improve housing services for people with long-term illnesses or disabilities.
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Â· Tony Blair helps drum up support at conference Â· Total amount raised exceeds target for reform
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An economic aid plan to send rebates of $600-$1,200 to most taxpayers passed a key test Monday in the Senate, where Democrats are pushing to add more than $40 billion in help for seniors, disabled veterans and the unemployed.
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Sickness absence in the NI Civil Service is on the increase, and has cost  Â£25.6m this year.
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By Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Dec. 15--ALBANY -- The Elder Network of the Capital Region recently received more than $800,000 in state funding to establish sustainable, aging-prepared communities, which will serve as models to augment the state's long-term care policy reform initiatives.
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Protection rackets add Â£600 onto the cost of every new home in a County Armagh town, an MLA claims.
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The cost of employing temporary NHS nursing staff has soared to more than AÂ£600 million, according to a new report. Figures released by the Royal College of Nursing showed the cost had trebled within the past six years.
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MPs totted up Â£87.6m in expenses in the last financial year - a "like for like" rise of about 5% on the year before.
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Annual savings of Â£600m in public services can be made in Wales by 2010,  says Rhodri Morgan.
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The government will pour eight billion pounds (11.9 billion euros, 16.4 billion dollars) into providing 180,000 affordable homes in the next three years, housing minister Yvette Cooper said Monday.