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It is worth highlighting that the Government plan to have larger earnings disregards for disabled people and parents with children (carers as well??) meaning that these customer groups should keep EVEN MORE of their earnings and their Universal Credit entitlement when they work.
Ultimately the Government, by using a 65% taper, want to ensure that claimants on the lowest incomes are better off by £0.35 for every £1 they earn over the income disregard rate. The Government also want to ensure that claimants ‘know where they stand’ as they start to increase their hours.
So what if, for example, a Universal Credit claimant wants to do some overtime and earn an extra £10 one week?
Assuming that the UC claimant is already earning over the earnings disregard level, the claimant will know that they will earn £10, lose £6.50 from their UC and keep £3.50.
It is when you drill down to it at this level that you realise that it is all a bit of an experiment. The Government are banking on the larger disregards and standard taper rate to act as an incentive to work. Will it be enough to entice people into work?
Maybe, but lets not forget that tougher conditionality may force claimants hand anyway.
Underpinning all of this is a tougher regime of conditionality, meaning that there will be harsher and tougher sanctions for refusing to take a job.
For claimants needing to meet work-related requirements, there will be a work-focused interview requirement, a work preparation requirement, a work search requirement and a work availability requirement.
There will also be a ‘claimant commitment’ which will be a record of a claimant’s responsibilities in relation to an award of universal credit.
Claimants failing to meet their responsibilities may be subject to ‘higher level’ sanctions.
The Coalition Government are making a bold clear step towards culture change with the creation of the Universal Credit.
From 2013, welfare in Great Britain will mainly be aimed at supporting those on the lower income spectrum, with welfare no longer providing support to moderate/middle income families that may have benefited from the current generosity of Tax Credits.
The Coalition Government estimates that 1.7 million people will have reduced entitlement under the Universal Credit.
This will make the issue of transitional payments an important one. The Coalition Government have stated that no-one will be worse off financially as the new system is implemented, Mr Duncan Smith boldly saying that “nobody will be worse off, they will be cash-protected.” Having witnessed the Tax Credits overpayments problems over the years, please forgive me if I am slightly sceptical about that statement.
There is one area of contradiction here. IDS says people will be cash protected, yet the Government plan to cap benefit payments to £500 per week for couple and lone parent households and to £350 per week for single person households. How will this all fit together? It is common knowledge that families with higher numbers of children and housing benefit claimants will be the losers under these plans. But will these families be offered transitional protection? Let’s hope the Government stick to their promise to ensure that disabled people do not become worse off under the benefit cap proposals.
It will take time for the Government to piece all of this together. There is still so much detail required. What support will there be for carers? The Government have already admitted that they may need to widen their consultation on the Personal Independence Payment, which will replace Disability Living Allowance.
What help will there be for Childcare costs? And for Council Tax Benefit? What will be the impact of time limiting Contribution-based ESA?
IncomeMAX eagerly await the next instalment of information so that we can make an informed decision on whether the planned programme of welfare reform will create a fair and just system that supports people adequately.(Nanowerk News) Pressure-treated wood is great stuff, but the chemicals used to preserve it from decay can leach out, where they can be toxic to bugs, fungi and other hapless creatures that have the bad luck to be in the neighborhood. Now, a team of Michigan Technological University scientists has used nanotechnology to keep the chemicals inside the wood where they belong (see paper in Carbohydrate Polymers: "Efficient one-pot synthesis and loading of self-assembled amphiphilic chitosan nanoparticles for low-leaching wood preservation").
"It's a new method that uses nanoparticles to deliver preservatives into the lumber," said chemistry professor Patricia Heiden. "In our experiments, it reduced the leaching of biocides by 90 percent."
The nanoparticles are tiny spheres of gelatin or chitosan (a material found in the shells of shrimp and other shellfish) chemically modified to surround the fungicide tebuconazole. The little spheres require no special handling.
"You just pressure-treat the wood in the usual way," Heiden said.
The initial tests show that the nanoparticle-treated wood is just as resistant to rot and insects as conventionally treated lumber. The researchers are now testing the wood in the warm, wet weather of Hawaii.
The research is funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Other Michigan Tech researchers contributing to the project are chemistry PhD student Xiaochu Ding and, from the School of Forest Research and Environmental Science, Research Engineer/Scientist II Dana Richter, Senior Research Engineer/Scientist Glenn Larkin, Assistant Research Scientist Erik Keranen and Professor Peter Laks.Iâ€™ve had about 9 scouts disappear from our troop in Scoutbook - weâ€™re getting their paperwork to the scout office to get them officially in our troop (they crossed over in late February), but in the meantime, we need them in our Scoutbook. Can someone help me with this? Weâ€™re looking at Troop 77 in Crossroads of America.
They gotta be registered or theyâ€™ll keep being removed. You can use the online transfer process and then it doesnâ€™t sit in a pile waiting for the registrar. Thatâ€™s your fastest course of getting it properly addressed. Let me know if you need more details on that.
Can we tell where the scout records went? Iâ€™d love more info on the online transfer process if you have a minute - Iâ€™d really appreciate that.
If you are transferring a Scout between units in different councils follow the directions at this link. If the Scout is in the same council using the online transfer tool is the most efficient way to transfer a Scout from one unit to another. A paper...
Iâ€™m in your council and made an educated guess as to your district and sent your DE a message about your issue. Hopefully he or a commissioner for your district can reach out and help. The online transfers can be initiated by the parent or the sending unit as DonovanMcNeil points out above. The Scoutmaster of the receiving unit would be the approver just like with a paper application. Iâ€™m the incoming District Commissioner in Pathfinder district.Livermore has many special event venues for concerts, races, festivals, and parades. Venue locations include our historic downtown, our walking/bicycle trails, parks and scenic countryside. A Special Event Permit shall be obtained before conducting athletic events, parades, and public assemblies which occur on or within the public right-of-way or other publicly owned property, in compliance with LMC Section 12.45.120 (Permit required).
Short term activities or temporary uses are allowed on private property, subject to the issuance of a Temporary Use Permit, and only when conducted in compliance with Section 9.09.090.
Entertainment events: Amusement rides, arts and crafts exhibits, auctions, carnivals,circuses, concerts, fairs, festivals, flea markets, food events, outdoor entertainment/sporting events, and other similar events as determined by the Director for a period not to exceed 10 days twice per year, separated by at least 30 days between uses. These events shall be conducted at least 200 feet away from any residence.
This permit allows a group of neighbors to block of a section of the street in their neighborhood to have a party. The application requires an approval signature from all residents within the block party area.(BEARDSLEY, Aubrey, illustrator) MALORY, Sir Thomas. The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur… [London: J.M. Dent], 1909. Thick quarto, original green pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt, uncut, original dust jacket.
Limited second edition, the first one-volume edition, of Beardsley's magnificently illustrated Le Morte D'Arthur, one of only 1500 copies printed, in original cloth and dust jacket.
A standout among many late Victorian illustrated versions of Malory's Arthurian masterpiece (first published 1485), the Morte Darthur published in parts by J.M. Dent (1893-94) "contained 21 full-page illustrations and 585 headings, borders, initials and ornaments by the then-unknown Aubrey Beardsley. Though a Burne-Jones influence was evident in the early chapters, Beardsley soon developed the Art Nouveau style characterized by whiplash line, abstract floral motifs and starkly contrasted black-and-white forms. Far more original was his treatment of content, for his knights, lethargic and spiritless, are completely dominated by their mistresses and the fays. Far from glorifying chivalric romance, Beardsley satirized it, shocking Victorian sensibilities with his effeminate heroes, androgynous nudes, lecherous satyrs and sensual angels" (Lacy, 46). His work won him "instant recognition and the artistic leadership of a decade often known as the 'Beardsley period'… The