Sentence examples for claimed allowances from inspiring English sources

But she came under fire over her expenses this year – before the Daily Telegraph's current campaign – after accusations she inappropriately claimed allowances for her sister's home in London.

But The Daily Telegraph revealed in 2009 that he claimed allowances to pay for furniture in his constituency home, including a £655 "Maximus" love seat in deep moss brushed cotton, with extra fabric protection from sofa.com.

HAD Stephen Harper, Canada's prime minister, last year acknowledged that at least three Conservative senators he named to the unelected 105-seat upper house claimed allowances to which they were not entitled, the matter would doubtless have ended there.

Treasury sources said the chancellor issued a firm denial of wrongdoing on Sunday night in response to a more serious allegation in the Daily ­Telegraph – that he had claimed allowances for two properties at the same time.

In 2009, in the wake of the parliamentary expenses scandal, MPs were advised to pay capital gains tax on the sale of any home for which they had claimed allowances.

Kirkbride designated their homes the other way round, allowing her to claim allowances on her flat.

The MPs also said they wanted to create a "robust and transparent process for claiming allowances and auditing them".

One peer, Lord Hanningfield, was suspended for a year in 2014 for claiming allowances he was not entitled to.

M.P.s had designated properties as their second home, to claim allowances, and then redesignated them as their main home, to claim tax breaks.

Tax experts are of two minds when it comes to claiming allowances.

Administrative/legal: greater time from claim receipt to claim allowance by the workers' compensation system, employer protest in regard to claim validity, and worker retention of an attorney for the injury or claim.