Sentence examples for allowances scheme from inspiring English sources

The Daily Telegraph has done a service by exposing the expenses business, and forcing a proper look at how the allowances scheme works.

The House of Lords allowances scheme "lacked clarity", said Saunders, but "it was considered that people who achieved peerage could be relied on to be honest.

During the expenses scandal the media and official investigations exposed many Members of Parliament (MPs) as having made improper claims under parliamentary allowances schemes.

If you were on the Enterprise Allowance Scheme, you got £40 and you could work.

By then she was renting a studio "funded by Thatcher's dream, the Enterprise Allowance Scheme.

With the redundancy money and a little help from the Enterprise Allowance scheme, they changed their home in North Ferriby into the Weird and Wonderful Magical Place.

As a rookie standup in the 1980s, Alan Davies tells the Daily Telegraph, "what really saved me – even though I was a lefty and a Labour voter and a CND person – was Thatcher's Enterprise Allowance Scheme".

Living off the government's enterprise allowance scheme, which paid him £40 a week, he did well, selling his stake in the business to his partner after a year for £16,000.

The Department for Work and Pensions' New Enterprise Allowance Scheme gave her £1,000 and use of a mentor – a self-employed businessman with 17 years' experience who knew about the nuts and bolts of running a company.

It said an analysis of 1,000 of the first universal credit claimants found they spend 29 hours a week looking for work rather than 16 hours under the jobseeker's allowance scheme.

The "smart use of welfare benefits" can directly stimulate entrepreneurship, he said, for example with the NEA's Thatcher-era predecessor, the Enterprise Allowance Scheme, which in 1992 helped 36,000 new businesses start up.