State pension for my wife and self, plus attendance allowance, brings us several hundred pounds a month.
She also said she would like to see carer's allowance brought into line with jobseeker's allowance, and will campaign for this to happen in Scotland once the welfare budget is devolved.
One minute she's hugging you because you're the nicest parent in the world (you've either raised her allowance, brought her something she likes or said she can stay out all night); the next you've ruined her life and she's not speaking to you.
There are probably two reasons: first, the 5%% borrowing allowance brings the answers in our two cases fairly close; second, the revenue constraint dominates in the numerical example.
The new family home allowance will be transferable on the death of one spouse and can be added to the existing £325,000 transferable allowance to bring the tax-free total up to £1m.
Lucas spoke with conviction: "It wasn't people on jobseeker's allowance who brought down the banks.
"We're here to say that it wasn't people on jobseekers' allowance that brought down the banks.
Any form of assistance, apart from the means-tested and totally inadequate cold weather payments, was rejected out of hand by the Tories; the winter fuel allowance was brought in very shortly after Labour won the 1997 election.
In the US, there are very specific liquid and gel allowances: You are allowed to bring a maximum of 3.4 ounces of a liquid/gel per container (not total).
The creation of the invalid care allowance in 1976 brought the first cash benefit for carers, although it would be a decade before it was extended to married and cohabiting women (in the teeth of government resistance) after a ruling in the European court.
ReprintsSuch caution is not playing well on the left, which already resents Mr Jospin's meagre 8% boost in benefits for the long-term unemployed (bringing the monthly allowance up to FFr2,445) and his refusal to extend benefits to the jobless young, who are not entitled to welfare.
