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The ITF Seafarers' Trust was established by the ITF Executive Board in 1981 as a body with charitable status under UK law. [1] The Trust financially supports organisations that directly provide welfare services to seafarers, acting as a lobbyist for change in the maritime community, and support long-term programmes that improve maritime workers’ health and welfare. [2]
A Health and welfare trust (HAWT) or Health and welfare plan (HAWP) is a tax-free vehicle for financing a corporation's healthcare costs for their employees. They were introduced in 1986 by Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) in their interpretation bulletin entitled IT-85R2. [ 1 ]
The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was renamed the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) on October 17, 1979, [5] when its education functions were transferred to the newly created United States Department of Education under the Department of Education Organization Act. [6]
Sterile dental instruments from hospital central supply (barcoded label indicating sterilization date, expiry date and contents). The central sterile services department (CSSD), also called sterile processing department (SPD), sterile processing, central supply department (CSD), or central supply, is an integrated place in hospitals and other health care facilities that performs sterilization ...
Welfare can take a variety of forms, such as monetary payments, subsidies and vouchers, or housing assistance. Welfare systems differ from country to country, but welfare is commonly provided to individuals who are unemployed, those with illness or disability, the elderly, those with dependent children, and veterans. Programs may have a variety ...
The Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association of the United States and Canada (OPCMIA) is a trade union of plasterers and cement masons in the construction industry in the United States and Canada.
Although the United States Army was founded in 1775, [6] Morale, welfare, and recreation programs did not exist for the Army until the start of the twentieth century. [5] Before that time, troop support came informally in the form of tradesmen and trading posts. The goods they were able to provide included meals, clothing, and laundering. [5]
These tables are lists of social welfare spending as a percentage of GDP compiled by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") into the OECD Social Expenditure Database which "includes reliable and internationally comparable statistics on public and mandatory and voluntary private social expenditure at programme level." [1]