Sentence examples for benefit shortfall from inspiring English sources

Since April they have had to cope with a housing benefit shortfall of £60 a month through the bedroom tax.

In April this dropped to £55 when she had to make up a £16.55-a-week housing benefit shortfall as a result of the bedroom tax.

A third of applicants were turned down because the council considered they would be able to cover the benefit shortfall "if they cut back on other expenditure".

Despite the third bedroom being used as a sensory room for Kelly, she must meet an £11 housing benefit shortfall each week as a result of the bedroom tax, and has been refused discretionary housing payment help.

The DWP argued that A's challenge lacked credibility because funds in the form of discretionary housing payments (DHPs) were available through local councils to help people in exceptional circumstances meet the benefit shortfall.

That figure doesn't include the cost of Discretionary Housing Payments (short term grants to enable vulnerable tenants to meet the housing benefit shortfall, amounting to around £680,000 in Newcastle this year).

Following the judgment on Tuesday, the government has announced an extra £35m in payments to deal with housing benefit shortfalls for those with disabilities.

The study, published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), finds that 60% of the 523,000 tenants affected have been unable to meet housing benefit shortfalls of between £14 and £22 a week in full.

Although ministers have told councils to disregard disability living allowance payments in any assessment of income, campaigners believe some councils have wrongly forced disabled applicants to use this income to meet housing benefit shortfalls.

DHPs are time-limited to just a few months, and critics say they will not solve long-term dangers of debt, rent arrears and eviction where tenants cannot meet benefit shortfalls but are unable to increase their income or move to smaller properties.

In light of the fact that the House of Representatives has voted more than 50 times to repeal Obamacare, it seems highly unlikely that the body would take a radical turn and vote, instead, to make significant improvements to the law, including addressing the "kid glitch," the cost sharing differences, the benefit shortfalls, and the provider network limitations in the QHPs in comparison to CHIP.