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France: Comment lutter contre le chômage ?

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France Inter (24.06.2019) La réforme de l'assurance chômage, présentées mardi dernier, devrait modifier les conditions d'accès à l'allocation et le calcul de son montant. 8,7 % de la population active est au chômage en France : cette réforme permettra-t-elle de faire baisser ce taux ? Comment lutter contre le chômage ? On en parle au 0145247000

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La France consacre un tiers de son PIB à la protection sociale

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BFMTV (20.06.2019) Le montant total des prestations de protection sociale (santé, retraite, famille, chômage) a augmenté de 1,8% en 2017, selon le service de statistiques des ministères sociaux. En ajoutant les frais de gestion et les frais financiers, ces dépenses ont atteint 774,5 milliards d'euros.

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Egypt to take greater social protection measures to help poor, middle income classes

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Ahram Online (23.06.2019) Egypt’s parliament – the House of Representatives – began discussing the country’s state budget (2019/20) and development plan on Saturday. Minister of Finance Mohamed Mait told MPs in a plenary session that the government will do everything possible to protect poor and limited income classes against the hardships of economic reform.

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France: Assurance-chômage - les principales mesures d'une réforme choc

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Les Echos (19.06.2019) Le Premier ministre et la ministre du Travail ont présenté ce mardi la réforme de l'assurance-chômage sur laquelle les partenaires sociaux avaient échoué à trouver un accord. Toutes les mesures seront adoptées par un décret, attendu pour la fin de l'été.

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UK: Govt urged to give new mothers £2k pension top-up

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pensionsage (03.06.2019) The government is being urged to give new mothers a £2,000 pension top-up to address the pension gender gap. The call from Which? follows analysis by itself and the Pensions Policy Institute, which found that women who take time out of work to care for a while, are hit with a ‘motherhood pension penalty’, potentially saving £15,000 less towards retirement compared to the average full-time working woman.

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Social grants second-most important source of income in South Africa

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EWN (28.05.2019) Social grants remain the second-most important source of income for households in the country after salaries. Statistics South Africa released the results of its General Household Survey earlier on Tuesday. The survey was conducted in more than 20,000 households.

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Pakistan: Funds for social protection to be doubled in next budget: Sania Nishtar

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Business Recorder (03.06.2019) Special Assistant to Prime Minister on social protection and poverty alleviation Dr. Sania Nishtar Sunday said the amount for social protection would be doubled in the upcoming budget which portrayed the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan to bring the marginalized sector into mainstream.

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Deutschland: Pflegeversicherung ist erstmals drittgrößte Sozialversicherung

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dasinvestment (14.05.2019) Am 1. Januar 2019 löste die Pflegeversicherung die Arbeitslosenversicherung als drittgrößte Sozialversicherung ab. Die Beiträge dürften weiter steigen, ebenso der Bedarf an Zusatzvorsorge, meint Rolf Tilmes, Vorstandschef des Financial Plannung Standards Board Deutschland (FPSB).

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US: Health-care costs for retirees climb to $285,000

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CNBC (02.04.2019) Despite the hefty price tag, there’s a piece of good news about retirees’ health-care costs: They aren’t rising as quickly as they were even a few years ago.

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