Sentence examples for discretionary payment from inspiring English sources

Relying on a discretionary payment is not a solution".

He will also receive an additional discretionary payment of $1.5 million in restricted shares, which will vest over two years.

Some months, that's my biggest discretionary payment, and it makes me wince, given the fact that I so rarely actually end up turning the television on.

She is receiving a temporary discretionary payment from the council which tops up her income to £3.38 a week, but she will become destitute when this runs out.

He said families with children at crucial stages in their education could be allocated a discretionary payment to allow them to stay in the borough.

"It's so clear that the government didn't really assess the impact on lives when it took this decision … The mechanism that they have in place to mitigate it – the discretionary payment that they provide the councils with, it doesn't solve anything: it's for just a couple of months, and the councils cannot count on that on a permanent basis.

If these were discretionary payments, they must surely constitute an undeclared donation to the Conservative Party.

Housing associations like ours cannot build a business plan based on discretionary payments.

Further detail has still to be given over some discretionary payments.

He said if councils' discretionary payments were exhausted "they can come to the government for a top-up".

This week, the Guardian exposed a worrying development in the localisation of the discretionary payments of the social fund.