"decreasing assistance" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe a situation in which someone is receiving less or no help. For example, "The government's decreasing assistance to medical clinics has had a significant impact on their ability to provide care."
DORIS FENIG Floral Park, Queens, April 18 , 2011To the Editor: Nearly 30 years after President Ronald Reagan used primarily white opposition to supporting "welfare queens," understood to be a code for minorities, as part of his justification for cutting taxes and decreasing public assistance, Ross Douthat adroitly turns the tables.
"This is exactly the wrong moment to be decreasing legal assistance, which is crucial to helping children and adults living in poverty obtain the basic necessities of life," said Mr. Banks, whose organization actually does not receive any funds from the federal corporation.
We see two factors at work: limited job opportunities and decreasing public assistance.
In the past, when income revenue in the neighborhoods decreased, government assistance checks made up for it.
The evidence from three decades of EITC policy expansions implies that the EITC decreases public assistance received by mothers and increases payroll and sales taxes paid.
A good triggering performance is also mandatory while deep sedation is to be avoided to decrease ventilatory assistance duration.
"The hard work of 40 Commando Royal Marines in Afghanistan over the winter has led to impressive progress in the capabilities of Afghan forces as they take on security responsibility, with decreasing levels of assistance from UK and ISAF forces.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond paid tribute, saying their work "has led to impressive progress in the capabilities of Afghan forces as they take on security responsibility, with decreasing levels of assistance from UK and ISAF (Nato) forces.
At the same time, there is some evidence that job search assistance exhibits decreasing marginal returns for the treated.
Such a continuous non-invasive monitoring device would facilitate the recognition of PVA and help to evaluate the effectiveness of measures adopted to face it, such as reducing sedation, changing ventilator mode, or varying ventilator settings, chiefly by decreasing the amount of assistance or by improving the match between neural and mechanical inspiration or by both means.
