pension
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The paper says campaigners are warning Burnham that voters will "punish him at the ballot box" if he scraps the pension safeguard.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Lord O'Neill believes showing investors he can be decisive on the state pension or the welfare bill will give him breathing room to focus on his favoured infrastructure investments.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Once she retires, our combined pension income will be $345,000 a year before any withdrawals from our retirement accounts.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
This is my fourth year teaching, and I began contributing to the CalSTRS pension as soon as I started working in the district.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
You’re in no position to give up a good job and pension for some pie-in-the-sky $397 computer kit.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
In the fourth quintile, Social Security is no longer the primary source of income, with income from pensions and retirement savings taking over the lead.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Consider Illinois, which in 2010 issued five-year bonds to finance its pensions at a 3.854% rate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Many Gurkhas disagree and want their pensions increased.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Our annual income comes from Social Security, RMDs and monthly pensions from previous employers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
After asking several widows, I found the government building where pensions were given out.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
By then she had already been medically pensioned out of West Yorkshire Police.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2023
The airline struggled with a 51-day pilots' strike between September and November 2017, grounding half its fleet and resulting in dozens of pilots being fired, while others resigned or were pensioned off.
From Reuters ● Nov. 25, 2021
A horse is pensioned when it is no longer available for breeding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2020
“Maybe it’s time for the whole thing to be pensioned off and rethought.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2017
“Not that it need come to that,” Mr. Owen blurted, meaning Tansy might marry and be saved before she was pensioned off.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Downpour and Inferno are states that people drive between pensioning their senators and whitegoods.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
With this eloquent plea, Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel last year won over reluctant Congressmen to his plan for pensioning off India's princes.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Iowa sent a pension to Joseph Newt Finney, she joined no less than 26 other States, Alaska and Hawaii, in pensioning her aged.*
From Time Magazine Archive
From Berlin they learned that Handsome Adolf himself had suppressed news of the Habicht ultimatum in Germany and was thinking of pensioning or retiring him from his post as "Inspector General for Austria."
From Time Magazine Archive
The new emperor showed himself more merciful, by pensioning instead of destroying his unfortunate foes.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
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