Duncan Smith urges welfare reform
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Some welfare payments should be handed out by local charities rather than the state, says Iain Duncan Smith.
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Millions face poverty in old age without radical reforms, analysts expect a politically sensitive report on Britain&#39;s creaking pensions system to say today.
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Millions of Britons face poverty in old age without radical reforms, analysts expect a politically-sensitive report on the country&#39;s creaking pensions system to say on Tuesday.
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Public health reforms to be piloted in deprived areas in a bid to tackle high levels of poor health.
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President Bush is planning to reform Social Securtiy
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LONDON, Oct 17  (IPS) - "We still believe in the welfare state. The  challenge for us here today is to defend and  promote public  services," Dave Prentis from the British union UNISON said at  a  meeting on public services and the welfare state at the  European Social Forum.
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UK Chancellor Gordon Brown urges rich nations to act on poverty, as he offers foreign debt relief to Tanzania.
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New manager Walter Smith believes Scotland must foster a sense of togetherness if they are to restore their international fortunes.
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The British government proposed a major overhaul of the state pension system Thursday, saying that it wants to increase the retirement age to avert a funding crisis as people live longer and have fewer children.
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President Bush said on Saturday  Social Security must be overhauled to avoid a "looming danger"  of insolvency, as he launched a public push for his proposal to  add private accounts to the program.
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Tony Blair and Gordon Brown will today be urged to risk the wrath of wealthier voters by reforming the tax laws on inheritance so as to close loopholes on gifts that allow the better-off to escape the Treasury&#39;s grip.
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Urgent reforms are needed to the way senior public appointments are made, the standards watchdog says.
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The system should be revamped to aid more workers displaced by a transforming economy, economists said as they released overhaul proposals.
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The Scottish Conservative Party issues a call for reforms to the bail system in a bid to crack down on knife crime.
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Stepping up his push to overhaul Social Security by creating private investment accounts, President Bush is dispatching his top officials to help him convince the public and lawmakers that the nation's retirement system needs fixing now.
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Home secretary's reforms designed to increase local accountability and cut form-filling bureaucracy
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Britons want speedier reforms of public sector services, according to a report  by the CBI business group.