Sentence examples for challenging benefit from inspiring English sources

Caton also describes the current climate as challenging: "Benefit cuts and a culture of austerity mean people are going to be needy of money, so we may end up seeing more people turn to prostitution".

Referring to the removal of funding under the legal aid scheme for advice and assistance on welfare rights matters, Martin writes: "This loss of funding, compounded by continuing cutbacks in local authority spending on advice services, has severely reduced the help and support available to claimants to pursue their legal rights in challenging benefit decisions".

But he says problems with delivery of the government's welfare shakeup and the removal of legal aid funding for challenging benefits decisions meant there was actually a drop in cases, from more than 50,000 in July 2013 to 8,775 in March this year.

Since the coalition government's Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (Laspo) came into effect in early 2013, the number of people receiving legal aid to challenge benefit decisions has fallen by 99%.

This translates to more than 78,000 disabled people per year, who are helped by legal aid advisers to challenge benefits decisions that can leave many struggling.

He led commandingly through three scheduled refuelling stops and was never remotely challenged, benefiting in no small measure from the fact that Michael Schumacher's Ferrari was not competitive enough with Bridge- stone tyres.

Just like community policing, all complex social challenges benefit from thoughtfully applied technology to track the challenges and pinpoint the hotspots--and the solutions.

Strategic challenges benefit from diversity of perspective because one person can bring the whole group up to a higher level with a better question.

The news that some researchers were challenging the benefits of yearly screening mammograms has provoked widespread confusion and debate.

But a small and increasingly vocal group of foundation leaders is challenging the benefits of this approach.

Although identifying persons with HCV infection, including asymptomatic persons, is challenging, the benefits for overall public health make it worthwhile.