Sentence examples for controversial benefit from inspiring English sources

The government's plans are expected to include a new and controversial benefit condition: making the long-term unemployed engage in short bouts of community service.

Official advisers to Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, have called for an urgent and robust review of the government's controversial benefit sanctions regime amid concerns that it is failing to help jobless claimants.

The Disney board has also decided to end a perk allowing for posthumous payments to the heirs of top executives should they die on the job, a controversial benefit known in financial circles as a "golden coffin".

Now, Arizonans who received such transplants, and are alive and well as a result of them, are questioning the data that lawmakers relied on to make their controversial benefit cuts.

There appeared to be enough uncertainty in the mind of the video referee, Phil Bentham, to utilise the controversial "benefit of the doubt" ruling when Brett Ferres slid over the line on the hour, given the number of replays that were viewed.

A wide-ranging independent review of the government's controversial benefit sanctions regime is urgently needed to address widespread concerns that it is unfair, excessively punitive, and does little to help people get into work, according to a cross-party committee of MPs.

The area is also the setting for the second series of Channel 4's controversial Benefits Street.

Residents involved in Channel 4's controversial Benefits Street are demanding a written apology from the broadcaster before they take part in a TV debate about the series.

He defended controversial benefits reforms introduced by the Government, saying: "We came in with a mission to restore the right values.

Channel 4's critics point to a tension between showing an upwardly mobile middle class in the "property porn" of shows such as Relocation, Relocation and Grand Designs, while representing the poor in documentaries such as the controversial Benefits Street.

One of the families lives in Haringey, one of the four London boroughs selected by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as pilot areas for introducing the controversial benefits cap.