For example, since the mid-1990s Vietnam has encouraged doctors to work in communes in remote and disadvantaged areas by establishing permanent state staff positions with salaries and allowances from the state budget [ 9].
A paper drawn up by the Department of Work and Pensions warns that the current system - which lets new tenants pocket the difference if they find homes for less than the flat-rate housing allowance they get from the state - is "not sustainable in the current economic climate".
Effective July 1 , 1987 the administrative and clerical allowance of each Senator from the State of Georgia and the State of North Carolina is increased to that allowed Senators from States having a population of six million but less than seven million, the population of said State having exceeded six million inhabitants.
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This sum should include the money they would receive from the state pension and any other allowances.
After a heart attack, a 59-year-old joiner needs help from the state to receive Employment and Support Allowance.
Back at their bungalow, Cynthia says that, having never claimed anything from the state, they are now getting pension credit and attendance allowance.
There are a string of benefits from the state, ranging from the state pension to various disability allowances, that might make an initial difference to the bill that self-funders are facing.
However, unlike the Temenggong, Sultan Ali was unwilling to involve himself with the affairs of the state but at the same time complained of receiving insufficient allowance from the British.
Apart from our stipend from the state – which doom merchants reckon could cause an economic meltdown – there are our freedom bus and Tube passes, discounted travel courtesy of senior railcards, winter fuel allowances and free TV licences.
