Sentence examples for benefits a week from inspiring English sources

Iain Duncan Smith: I could live on £53 in benefits a week.

The family's home in Haverhill, Suffolk, is paid for by housing benefit; other costs must be met from £160 benefits a week.

Then the press agent who never gets you in the papers unless you play at least three benefits a week and appear at the opening of a new butcher shop to throw out the first chop.

The journey can cost up to half of what she gets in benefits a week.

I used to get about £95 Incapacity Benefit a week.

He now receives benefits, $278 a week.

He would have to survive on his unemployment benefits: $353 a week.

I feel like a Tory MP who lives on benefits for a week to prove how easy it is.

Even a one-month delay in extending those benefits — $295 a week, on average — would be devastating, cutting off an estimated 1.8 million unemployed workers in January alone.

(For the purposes of this calculation, I assume that, consistent with the law, nobody received unemployment benefits for a week that she or he was employed).

One-fifth of those who depend on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) said that they exhaust the month's worth of benefits within a week.