Sentence examples for maintenance allowance was from inspiring English sources

Education maintenance allowance was scrapped.

The agenda of the government is clear: raising fees, slashing the university teaching budget and scrapping the education maintenance allowance was just the beginning.

At the same time, the £500m education maintenance allowance was axed in England, meaning the poorest students aged 16-19 lost up to £30 each week.

The reaction was the biggest wave of mass student mobilisation since the 1960s, with the backbone of many of the demonstrations coming from poorer school and further education (FE) students whose education maintenance allowance was being scrapped.

Children from poor families need to work in order to support their parent or parents, something that was brought into sharp relief when the education maintenance allowance was cut in 2010.

The rocketing cost of higher education and the coalition's abolition of the Educational Maintenance Allowance are part of the same story.

His plans for cutting fares, creating an energy co-op and restoring education maintenance allowance are bold, and if only half-delivered would still rout Johnson's thin offering.

Michael Gove's replacement for the scrapped education maintenance allowance is a "rushed and ill-thought-through" reform that was unveiled too late for teenagers making decisions about study in September, according to a committee of MPs.

Simon Hughes, the Liberal Democrat MP and government advocate for access to education, is preparing to lobby the government for additional money if evidence proves that the decision to withdraw the educational maintenance allowance is having a negative impact.

"Tensions in families who are coming under economic pressures, parents being more called to account for the behaviour of their older children, and the withdrawal of the education maintenance allowance are some of the reasons why teenagers could be leaving home in greater numbers with nowhere to go," she says.

One CPO also wrote, "There is no motivation and I have had to use my own means of transport and resources to deliver services without any vehicle maintenance allowance being paid to me".