Sentence examples for allowance the work from inspiring English sources

Housing benefit will not be available to European Union migrants claiming jobseeker's allowance, the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, has said in what he describes as the latest measure to end "benefit tourism".

It is an ongoing calamity: from the discredited fit-for-work tests that determine eligibility for employment and support allowance, the Work Programme that is failing to get significant numbers of disabled people into paid jobs, benefit sanctions, and the closure of the independent living fund to the bedroom tax.

I only found out after the introduction of employment support allowance, and the work capability assessment it requires, that I would have been entitled to much more help if I hadn't said that I compensated for my disability very well.

It plans to reverse Tory cuts to disability allowances and increase the work allowance in universal credit.

As a result, she relied on family income supplement and child tax allowance – the in-work, family-based benefits that were later renamed tax credits.

"I would love to go work again and have a normal life, but who is going to employ me?." This article was amended on 29 March 2016 to make clear that the cut to the employment and support allowance in the work-related activity group applies only to new claimants.

This is partly because there are far fewer jobs to put people into, and partly because the conveyor belt of people moving off incapacity benefit (employment and support allowance) and into the work programme has virtually ground to a halt.

Campaigners and MPs – including some Tory backbenchers – have been lobbying ministers to mitigate the impact of the welfare cuts by restoring the work allowance in universal credit, and to reconsider the planned £30-a-week cuts in employment and support allowance benefits due in 2017.

Freezing the work allowance will harm work incentives and hit low paid families hard.

The work allowance changes are forecast to bring the exchequer £3bn a year in savings by 2021.

That compares to losses of up to £2,800 a year from the work allowance changes.