Sentence examples for benefit penalty from inspiring English sources

Robert Tapsfield, chief executive of the Fostering Network, said: "While we are delighted for the many foster carers who are now exempt from the housing benefit penalty, we are extremely concerned for those who have more than one bedroom for fostered children.

Another recounted dropping out of the voluntary work experience scheme – "the type of jobs were terrible" – and being given a two-week benefit penalty, only to be faced with a mandatory placement at a meeting soon afterwards, with a six-month benefit stoppage for refusal.

Can you beat the system by working between ages 65 and 70 but deferring receipt of income until you are safe from a benefit penalty?

Mould, a former NHS chief executive, is scathing about how the state can coldly impose benefit penalties on vulnerable individuals while "knowing that no one will actually die of starvation because someone else – the voluntary sector – is looking after them".

Benefit penalties for addicted claimants who refuse treatment is a personal policy favourite of Cameron's but attracted criticism from within his own party when he unveiled it earlier this year.

Benefits delays and benefits penalties, called sanctions, which typically result in claimants' payments being stopped for six weeks, are driving up food bank demand to the point where Pecan is finding it hard to keep pace.

Now the benefit or penalty associated with that change will depend on a couple's incomes.

There is no financial benefit or penalty associated with filing this information every three months instead of once a year.

No hardship, loss of benefit, or penalty - which may include downgrading an employee's performance rating, limiting an employee's opportunities for assignments or advancement, excluding an employee from corporate or departmental functions, or general mistreatment - may be imposed on an employee as punishment for filing or responding to a good faith complaint or cooperating in an investigation.

AARP's calculator, however, shows what you lose by collecting before your full retirement age, or the point at which you're eligible to receive your full benefits without penalty.

The government has finally abandoned its controversial policy of imposing benefit cap penalties on full-time carers for adult relatives, two months after a court found it unlawfully discriminated against disabled people.