Sentence examples for claiming allowances from inspiring English sources

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.

The MPs include Douglas Hogg, the Tory MP who cited the cost of cleaning his moat when claiming allowances to fund his home in his Sleaford and North Hykeham constituency.

Second homes are a legitimate expense for M.P.s, who need to have a base in their constituencies as well as in London, but the system for claiming allowances had become lax, and was tacitly regarded as a legitimate way of boosting official pay.

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

Asked what the row was doing for the reputation of Parliament, Mr Lansley said "I don't think it helps" but insisted that the "discredited" system for claiming allowances in the last Parliament had been swept away.

La Madrina, a 5-year-old mare trained by Hall of Famer Shug McGaughey, had run in three consecutive stakes, two of them graded, before dropping into the $47,000 optional claiming allowance.

— Marathon Farms Inc.'s Maryland homebred Lexington Street is set to make her first start of the year in Friday's co-featured eighth race, a $45,000 optional claiming allowance for females 3 and up at six furlongs on the main track.

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

Julie Kirkbride, Conservative MP for Bromsgrove Two weeks ago, her husband, Andrew MacKay, the Tory MP for Bracknell, admitted that for eight or nine years he had designated Kirkbride's constituency flat as his main home, allowing him to claim allowances on their London house.

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.