Sentence examples for benefit cheque from inspiring English sources

Louise says she sought a short-term cash advance from the jobcentre to tide her over until her first benefit cheque but was not offered one.

The post office where I spent hours as a child queueing to cash my parents' child benefit cheque had been gutted by fire.

The piece, entitled Hunger Hurts, was written when Jack Monroe was at her wits' end: no money, the food cupboard bare, the housing benefit cheque turning up, inexplicably, £100 short.

Even after you had survived childhood and started to contribute to the programme your chances of living to see a benefit cheque were not much better than evens (54% for men; 61% for women).

Highlighting "aspiration" as  "a big difference" between the Tories and Labour, he will insist it is not about "patronising people, patting them on the head and putting a benefit cheque in their hands," but "giving them the tools -- the stability at home, the rigour at school, the opportunity at work — [to] finish the job and write their own success story".

Cameron's: "Compassion isn't measured out in benefit cheques – it's in the chances you give people.

Unions and consumer groups united to condemn the decision to remove the contract to process the benefit cheques from the Post Office and give it to private sector company PayPoint.

Should he do so, the Tories will be able to argue that the looming public service cuts – cuts that the IFS already calls "inconceivably" deep – would have to be deeper still under a Labour government, since it would squander more resources on bigger benefit cheques.

Pension and veterans' benefit cheques have been delayed.

Most national parks, museums, federal buildings and services were closed, while pension and military veterans' benefit cheques were delayed.

National parks and Washington's Smithsonian museums are closed, pension and veterans' benefit cheques will be delayed, and visa and passport applications will go unprocessed.