Sentence examples for controversial benefits from inspiring English sources

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.

The documentary is set to air in 2015 but residents are anxious of being portrayed in a similar light to those who featured on last year's controversial Benefits Street, about people living on James Turner Street in Birmingham.

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.

David Gauke, the work and pensions secretary, is pressing ahead with plans to increase the number of jobcentres paying the controversial benefit, which merges six welfare payments into one.

They take expanded form in my recent ethnography of bioprospecting in Mexico, When Nature Goes Public, which tracks relationships among 'local' communities, public sector scientists, and drug companies involved in controversial benefit-sharing agreements.

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.

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.