Sentence examples for benefit budget from inspiring English sources

Control over the £1.7bn housing benefit budget would be devolved.

The £2bn the coalition has taken from the housing benefit budget is particularly worrying.

It now estimates that only 0.3% of the incapacity benefit budget is overspent due to fraud.

Labour is under pressure to show how it can cut the benefit budget.

The housing benefit budget has risen in recent years and now costs the Treasury £25bn.

But making the necessary cuts in departmental spending and the necessary savings in the benefit budget – none of it easy – these things are not avoidable," Cridland told reporters.

In effect, they will be paying for the homes out of future housing benefit budgets instead of today's affordable housing budget.

He is expected to hint strongly that the child benefit changes will not be reversed, and also indicate that he supports some form of overall cap on benefit budgets.

The cut would save maybe £60m a year from a benefits budget of £120bn.

The main factor determining the cost of each proposal is the generosity of benefits, budget analysts said.

Prying eyes might note that the old get by far the largest slice of the benefits budget.