"as an allowance" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to indicate a certain amount or proportion of something that is allowed or granted. Example: The company offered him a company car as an allowance for his extensive travel for work.
"Then they discounted at a further 2% as an allowance for risk.
The reduction in user fees would reflect the cost of contraceptive services, as well as "an allowance for administrative costs and margin," or profit.
Zhang Kai, a lawyer who has been advising the family, said the government had described the payment as an allowance, when it should have been compensation.
Compulsory membership in a national health-insurance system guarantees all Norwegians free medical care in hospitals, compensation for doctors' fees, and free medicine, as well as an allowance to compensate for lost wages.
The results are informative for the design of investment subsidies which might be integrated in corporate tax systems such as an Allowance for Corporate Equity or a cash-flow tax.
Bills that go unpaid have to be written off eventually as uncollectible; the larger the percentage of such bills, the greater the amount a financial institution must reserve as an allowance for loan losses.
For some, the exercise was as satisfying as stacking the dimes and quarters of an allowance, as soothing as sitting in King Midas's gold-filled counting house.
As to an allowance of a gathering charge in relation to gas purchased from the Carolina-Texas field, the gathering lines in which were the property of an affiliate, the commission allowed a charge of one-half of 1percentnt.
The consensus among experts is that you should give your child an allowance as soon as he or she begins noticing and asking about money.
Allowances are more than a way for couples to divide spending, however, and single people can benefit from having an allowance as well.
Health workers refer to this allowance as a 'seminar allowance'.
