Sentence examples for a single earner from inspiring English sources

"We're basically trying to help people also who are at home with a single earner," he said.

A household with a single earner and two children would lose £75 a year in child benefit and £420 in tax credits.

A single earner on the minimum wage of £6.08 an hour, working 20 hours a week, will lose £3,910 – more than a quarter (27%) of their income.

A family of four dependent on a single earner at that level — making fifteen thousand dollars a year — is living far below the federal poverty line.

Reliance on a single earner is risky, and complete specialization in family care leaves women economically vulnerable, especially in a world with a high divorce rate.

So a family in which two earners each took home €900,000 would not be touched, while another in which a single earner pocketed just over €1m would be, even if his partner earned nothing.In this section Keeping the radical left in check The eternal building site Asylum system abuse Culprit or scapegoat À bas les riches!

The decision to become a single-earner household seemed efficient to us, in terms of weighing the costs against the benefits.

The marriage penalty stems in part from efforts dating back to 1948 to smooth out other inequities in the tax code, including a once-widespread problem that led a single-earner household to have a higher tax bill than a two-earner household with the same income.

Its modelling shows that the combined impact of welfare cuts, changes to the personal tax allowance and the creation of the new national living wage would see a dual-earner renting family with two children, currently earning the national minimum wage, see their net income rise 12% over the parliament, while a single-earner couple with two children would experience at 3% increase.

The IFS also makes the now familiar critique that the government plans create anomalies, since a two-earner couple with taxable income of £100,000 split equally would retain all child benefit, but a single-earner couple or lone parent, with taxable income of £60,000, would lose all of it.

"If you're a single-earner family in the South East on (that income), you don't feel particularly rich, and you'd be aggrieved that people earning between £150,000 and £1 million are getting a tax cut".