The phrase "allowance costs" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to budgeting, accounting, or financial analysis, where costs associated with allowances are being discussed.
Example: "The allowance costs for the project exceeded our initial estimates, leading to budget adjustments."
Alternatives: "budgeted costs" or "allocated expenses".
Every £100 annual increase in the personal allowance costs £500m.
The winter fuel allowance costs between £2bn and £3bn a year; so, unless the threshold is so low as to be worthless, there's not a chance of being able to fund a new elderly care programme.
In fact, including offsets in the bill is a way to restrain allowance costs.
A tightening cap would drive allowance costs higher, making the cheaper offsets increasingly useful, some legislators believe.
If that allowance costs less than the price of new plant modifications, Company X has a money-saving opportunity it can buy Company Y's allowance and keep what it otherwise would have spent on plant upgrades.
Paying those people Jobseeker's Allowance cost less than £800m a year, or under half of one per cent of GDP.
Labour sources listed raising the personal allowance costing as £6.5bn, raising the higher rate income tax threshold as costing £3.9bn, an extra £8bn a year for the NHS, volunteer days for civil servants costing £1.25bn and five years of rail fare freezes costing £1.8bn.
Faculty housing allowances, which total US$8.22 million across the five years, were provided in many cases instead of building faculty houses, since housing allowances were determined to be more cost-effective, with annual housing allowances costing only 8% of the cost of building a new house.
Travel allowances (transport costs, patient transfers, allowances for outreach services and staff per-diems, etc).
There may also be other salary additions such as a daily food allowance, heating costs and bonuses for performing certain duties.
Once pensions have been left aside, the next largest benefit is housing allowance, which costs just over £18bn a year, but keeps a roof over the head of many families both in and out of work.
