The phrase "accommodation allowance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to financial support for housing or lodging expenses, often in employment or relocation scenarios.
Example: "The company offers an accommodation allowance to help employees cover their housing costs while on assignment."
Alternatives: "housing allowance" or "living allowance".
I probably did wrong in some of the things I claimed for on my accommodation allowance.
We are offering an attractive and competitive package including work permit support, airfare, an accommodation allowance and health insurance.
These include a ban on "flipping" the designation of MPs' first and second homes and a tighter cap on the accommodation allowance.
MPs who are couples will be obliged to nominate the same main home and will only be able to claim one person's accommodation allowance between them.
(See 9.15am) Chris Huhne has said there was nothing hypocritical about Nick Clegg making a profit from the sale of a Brussels home he lived in when he was receiving an EU accommodation allowance.
As the Guardian reports, the Eurosceptic thinktank Open Europe has accused Clegg of hypocrisy because he made a proft from the sale of a Brussels home that he lived in when he was receiving an accommodation allowance from the European parliament.
The cross-party Standards Committee has ordered Mrs Miller to repay £5,800 in overclaimed accommodation allowances – a figure nearly £40,000 less than that recommended by Parliament's standards commissioner Kathryn Hudson.
Cameron insisted that the issue should be "left" after the cross-party Standards Committee ordered Maria Miller to apologise and hand back £5,800 in overclaimed accommodation allowances – nearly £40,000 less than that recommended by Parliament's standards commissioner Kathryn Hudson.
The prime minister refuses to sack Maria Miller over her claiming of £45,000 in accommodation allowances (Report, 4 April), while at the same time introducing a spare-room tax for the poor.
During my 30 years in the Commons – when expenses increased from literally nothing to inadequate secretarial and constituency accommodation allowances – I never even considered employing a member of my family.
A spokesman for Mrs Miller denied that she had changed her second home designation in order to avoid having to sign the declaration, pointing out that the first of three letters from parliamentary authorities was not sent until May 2009, and she stopped claiming all accommodation allowances in April that year.
