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The inflation-linked rise will include a retroactive adjustment dating back to August

Dear Sir, My husband, Osensei Frederick “Skipper” Ingham, died on November 9 last year, aged 92. Several people felt he should have received a state funeral owing to his outstanding contribution to the development of karate in Bermuda over the past 5...

Social insurance payments will be made according to a sliding scale based on what a person earns, according to yesterday’s Throne Speech. No details of how the changes would impact individual contributors were stated, and the One Bermuda Alliance sai...

The Department of Social Insurance will be closed from tomorrow until next Tuesday for renovation work, the Ministry of Finance announced today. The office, in the Government Administration Building on Parliament Street, Hamilton, will close tomorrow...

A financial safety net for people left out of work due to Covid-19 was today backed by a charity for families. Martha Dismont, the executive director of Family Centre, said the unemployment scheme announced by Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Labour, w...

Families affected by delays in payment of war veterans’ benefits will have their problems tackled “as a matter of urgency”, the Minister of Finance pledged last night. Curtis Dickinson said officials from the Department of Social Insurance would meet...

Bermudians are, by and large, an independent, canny and resourceful people. In many ways we have long embodied what Theodore Roosevelt meant when he said that “far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work wor...

Bermuda’s low-income workers are caught in “a reverse Robin Hood effect”, according to economist Craig Simmons — and the tax breaks in the latest Budget do not go far enough to pull them out. On the other hand, Keith Jensen, head of the Bermuda Emplo...

A United States regional federal benefits officer yesterday spoke to more than 100 US citizens living in Bermuda about how they can best make use of the US Social Security Programme. Vivian Adebayo, who is based in the US Embassy in San José, Puerto ...

The United States Consulate will sponsor a public meeting to discuss US social security benefits and related issues. The meeting will begin at 12.30pm on Tuesday, November 3, in the Bermudez Room at XL Catlin, Bermudiana Road. Speakers will include U...

Financial Assistance will have dealt out an “unprecedented” $50 million to roughly 2,680 residents in need by the close of the current fiscal year, according to Community Minister Wayne Scott. The number of Bermudians depending on Government’s help i...

More than 2,000 Bermudians received financial assistance in the past month, with pensioners the biggest group seeking help, followed by disabled residents. In the tough economic climate the need for a helping hand is great, but some people are making...