1. It was supposed to keep retirement benefits safe from politicians' tinkering.

2. Retirement benefits are not enough to live on, so nearly 2 million pensioners have to claim income support.

3. The first includes earnings, occupational sick pay and retirement benefits, and holidays.

4. Some businesses provide a kind of retirement benefit.http://

5. We are looking for a guaranteed retirement benefit program , and organizations capable of providing one .

6. There has been criticism about the current method for figuring social security retirement benefits.

7. Whatever is there when the employee retires is used to fund his retirement benefit.

8. Voters also rejected Proposition C, which would have improved retirement benefits for 165 police officers and firefighters.

9. He was asked to resign after pressing for cuts in retirement benefits paid out to employees of the public sector.

10. He was asked to resign last August after pressing for cuts in retirement benefits paid to public-sector employees.

11. From some angles, it looks to be a pension plan offering monthly retirement benefits commensurate with contributions.

12. The higher death benefit before retirement is allowed for by an equivalent reduction in retirement benefit.

13. This could help as many as 70 percent of state workers who reportedly change jobs before they are entitled to retirement benefits.

14. Policyholders were able to benefit from higher levels of retirement benefits for the same premium because the death provision was limited.

15. Because companies could no longer deduct the cost of health and life insurance, they may stop offering all but retirement benefits.

16. Pension, A sum of money paid regularly as a retirement benefit or by way of patronage.

17. It also cut salary increases for senior management, reduced bonuses and retirement benefit contributions for all employees and cut spending on capital programs and consultants.

18. One major problem, experts say, is that the Social Security Number (SSN) — originally meant only for retirement benefit and tax purposes — has become the universal way to identify people.

19. For example, in 2009, China's retirement-system assets – national social security, local government retirement benefit plans, and private sector pensions – totaled just RMB2.4 trillion ($364bn).