At first glance, reducing future benefits promised to current workers would not seem to increase resources available to invest now.

It also guarantees benefits promised to 43 million more people.

They had been pressing common demands for land, farm credits and other benefits promised them after the country's eight-year civil war.

Our plan would not reduce the benefits already promised to those over 50 or the poor.

That means they do not have enough assets to pay the benefits promised to their workers.

The guarantee covers the benefits promised most retirees but may not cover those for employees who had relatively high salaries.

We did not make the benefit promises to him, the board did.

The only way to reduce the required aid would be to reduce the benefits promised to retirees.

After all, the government would still need to pay benefits already promised to older workers and retirees who would not benefit from privatization.

The pay-as-you-go system seems to demand more workers just to finance benefits already promised.