Sentence examples for parent benefit from inspiring English sources

As a result of all this, the women failed to combine forces to resist the first thing the government did that was seen as an attack - the cut in lone parent benefit.

The parent benefits from a diversified stream of earnings.

The 2014 financial report shows no sign that Wilson Security's Australian parent benefited from a lower effective tax rate, having paid 29% – just below the nominal company tax rate of 30% – on its net profit of $32.5m.

Furthermore, German parents benefit from 14 months of paid parental leave (in total for both parents) whereas Swiss women are entitled to only 14 weeks of maternity leave [ 33– 33].

As soon as he came in, Blair called single mothers "workless", and cut one-parent benefit.

The government is also trying to repair the damage from the row over lone-parent benefit.

This dichotomous approach is very noticeable here, where Labour followed its abolition of one-parent benefit by generous increases in income support for poorer households with children and a welfare-to-work programme for lone parents.

Amrit Wilson is a writer and activist on race and gender, and south Asian politics It was Harriet Harman, feminist and civil liberties activist, who announced as frontbench spokeswoman of New Labour that one-parent benefit was to be abolished.

This week Harriet Harman, Labour's hapless social-security secretary, faced widespread criticism from Labour MPs over her plan to press ahead with the Conservative cuts in lone-parent benefit.

But she is not only a committed New Labourite but also a sufficiently loyal protégé of the chancellor, Gordon Brown, to have taken the rap for the lone-parent benefit cuts, against which she had argued in private but which she defended in public.

And parents benefit, too.