Since 2008, about a third of municipalities have started offering a special allowance to parents who choose not to work while their children are under three.
Yet he is accused of forgery and of having embezzled more than 11m Taiwanese dollars ($333,000) from a special allowance for public relations during his stint as Taipei's mayor from 1998 to 2006.According to the indictment, Mr Ma paid the allowance into his own bank account and declared it as his personal property.
According to results of this scale, a special allowance (i.e., Allocation Personalisée d'Autonomie, APA) is allocated by the Conseil Général to functionally impaired subjects (scoring 4 or lower).
For a new property in Almon, I'd get almost £11,600 as a special allowance.
Then she approached the International Tennis Federation twice, asking the sport's international governing body to make a special allowance.
Although implemented in the wake of the Taika reforms of the seventh century, this idealistic approach to land distribution was incrementally compromised by special allowances of semi-permanent land holdings for Buddhist temples, Shintô shrines, aristocrats, and samurai rulers.
A special travel allowance of up to S$2000 may be provided to assist international doctoral and postdoctoral scholars to cover travel costs to Singapore.
Bonus depreciation: Since 2008, companies have been able to take advantage of a special depreciation allowance that allows them to write off 50 percent (and sometimes more) of certain kinds of investment in the first year.
The high incidence in Austria is likely related to Kurzarbeit (or "short work"), a temporary institutional arrangement which allows employers to reduce working hours and pays employees government-subsidised special allowances instead of regular wages to cover most of the earnings shortfall.
