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City to continue studying Business 75 drainage issue
Discussion over needed improvements for the drainage adjacent to McDonald’s on Business Highway 75 has prompted the Le Mars City Council to ask city staff for a future council session devoted to setting priorities on major city projects.

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Interactive Data Plans Debt as Sales Increase: New Issue Alert
Interactive Data is marketing eight-year debt to help fund the company’s buyout by Silver Lake Technology Management LLC and Warburg Pincus LLC, according to a person familiar with the offering who declined to be identified because terms aren’t set. Financial services – Business – Financial Planning – Debt Consolidation – Business and Economy

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A new magazine about Ofra Haza, the late Israeli and international world music singer and Grammy nominée: first of its kind, it has been released in February 2009! 36 fully coloured pages on Ofra, excepts from her probably most complete biography in English, CD reviews, featured fan art, secrets about her songs and career, fan stories, pictures and more! First time since Ofra’s tragic death in February 2000 it’s your chance to stay updated on what’s going on with Ofra Haza, her fan community all over the world and what really mattered in her long career. A rarity (limited printing!) which deserves a special place at each true fan’s home. From time to time it’s going to be offered at Ebay, yet you can order the fanzine from the following pages: myspace.com www.ofrahazafanzine.com Payments should be sent via PayPal or credit card. Information and questions please mail to info@ofrahazafanzine.4mg.com webmaster@ofrahaza.de Join our Yahoo group “ofra-haza” at Yahoo Groups or the Fanzine Group at Facebook.com (Ofra Haza Fanzine) or the Myspace community at myspace.com/ofrahazafanzine !! —- Fanzine editor: Kaylene Granado (youtube.com/OfraHazaFanzine) Published by RTR Fanzines LLC Video made by ayinchet © 2009 Broadcast&News Ayin&Chet

Fifth anniversary of means-tested benefit is nothing to celebrate

Britain’s biggest pensioner organisation, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC), has marked the fifth anniversary of the introduction of the means-tested Pension Credit by highlighting its failure to reach the very poorest older people.

The latest official figures from the Department for Work and Pensions[1] reveal how ineffective the Pension Credit has been at tackling pensioner poverty:

There are up to 1.8m pensioners who are eligible, but do not receive the Pension Credit (ENR – eligible non-recipients). This represents a take-up rate of between 59%-67% – significantly below the government’s stated target of 73%.

35% of these individuals (ENRs) are aged 80 or over.

67% of the 1.8m pensioners (ENRs) are living on incomes below the official poverty level. In total, 2.5m pensioners in Britain are said to be living in poverty.

Up to £1.3bn in Pension Credit goes unclaimed.

The Pension Credit take-up rate is the lowest in the East Midlands, London, the North West, South West and Wales where the number of pensioners who are eligible but don’t claim is higher than those actually receiving the benefit (see table below for regional breakdown).

The DWP study also offers a number of reasons as to why pensioners are reluctant to make a claim. These include:

Feeling that the process of claiming is demeaning

Being unaware of the rules and/or a belief that they are ineligible to claim

An unwillingness to disclose personal information

A complicated and off-putting claiming process

Dot Gibson, NPC vice president said: “When Gordon Brown was in opposition in 1993, he claimed he wanted to be the first Labour chancellor to end the means-testing of Britain’s elderly, yet he has been the architect behind the biggest expansion of means-testing of pensioners since WWII. After five years.

The Pension Credit still fails to reach 2m of the country’s poorest older people – because they are unwilling to take part in what they see as a demeaning process.

It’s time the government realised that pensioners and means-testing simply don’t mix.

What older people want is an end to means-testing and a decent state pension which is set above the poverty level of £151 a week and rises each year in line with earnings.”
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I was 60 this past April, ive been campaigning on hehalf of Britains pensioners for 20 years, see my profile.

I believe the UK s stae pension should be £250 a week per single pensioners, and £300 a couple. Also that pensioners should not have to pay tax, because they have already paid their share of tax.

And before some bright spark asks, “whose going to pay for this increase” ?????????. These people ask this because they are selfishingly thinking of themselves, they forget that they would not be here today if it was not for our war veterans efforts during World War 2.

The answer is this. The Government means test system is costing over 10 times more of income tax payers money than it would cost to restore the state pensions link with national average wages.

The government are sitting on a “surplus” in National Insurance contributions exceeding £40 billion, that is set to increase to £74.1 billion in 2012, and the Government use just 5 per cent Gross National Product on the state pension in this country, compared to European countries where their Government’s use more than double at 12 per cent, because EU state pensions are higher.

i am trying to add a debt card to my paypal account, so i go to my paypal profile and add credit/debt card. i submit my card number,address and other info.and then the red massage pop out, it’s said ”Your credit or debit card has not been added since your card issuer does not allow checking the card’s billing address. Please enter a different card number. If you have further questions, please contact the business that issued your card.” i have try to submit my information again, but everytime i do that, paypal charged me 1dollar. so i done it about 5 times, so i got charged 5 dollars. please help me

I’m trying to register my Visa debit card to my PlayStation 3 online profile. I’m mainly updating the billing info. I put everything in it correctly and at first it gave me this response:

Credit card info not valid.

So I waited a while and this is what it’s giving me now:

The credit card information cannot be updated.

What’s going on? Is there any way this can be fixed? I tried inputting info from my bank statements to typing my info in ALL CAPS. Nothing’s working.