Sentence examples for heating allowances from inspiring English sources

The attacks on winter heating allowances, free bus passes and television licences for all older people generally grow louder.

He said that payments to the elderly to subsidize television license fees, along with bus fare and heating allowances, would not be touched, either.

To be sure, the $1.6 billion in savings is a tiny part of the overall deficit, but symbolically it carries much greater weight by suggesting that other universal benefits that have disproportionately benefited the middle class, including heating allowances, free bus passes and television licenses for the elderly, might also be vulnerable.

The social safety net that has been an essential feature of British life since World War II ended has been built largely on providing similar benefits to all, like health care and home heating allowances for the elderly, regardless of income.

This covers costs for rent, heating, allowances for potential additional requirements, and health and long-term care insurance contributions.

All told, about a third of Britain's 61 million people claim either a child subsidy or winter heating allowance.

We spend the heating allowance that the government gives us – that money is enough for us to buy our accommodation.

The government spends £2.7 billion ($4.24 billion) a year to provide a winter heating allowance to everyone over the age of 60.

I've been saving supermarket vouchers to pay for the Christmas turkey and my husband [who is retired] has given me part of his heating allowance for presents".

My wife and I have donated the equivalent of our pension heating allowance because we know we will be warm this winter.

Although many people will think it is slightly odd that people who are incredibly rich are receiving things like the winter heating allowance, the truth is the overwhelming majority of pensioners are on middle or low incomes.