Sentence examples for parent benefits from inspiring English sources

The parent benefits from a diversified stream of earnings.

Parent benefits include a reduction in stress that they experience at home.

ALMOST a quarter of a million couples with children are pretending to live apart to claim lone parent benefits worth up to £7,100 a year, according to a report by The Marriage Foundation.

JK Rowling composed her first Harry Potter novel while she was getting single parent benefits, while financier and Tory donor Lord Ashcroft recalls in his memoir spending several months on the dole during his 20s while he "waited for the next opportunity to come along".

He served as the Liberal Democrat spokesman on local government (1993-97) and then higher education (2001-05), oppostudentudentuitionon and top-up fees and leading the fight against the Labour government's plans to scrap single parent benefits and cut those for disabled people.

With its cut in single-parent benefits, the government handed it just such an issue.

Last autumn 47 Labour MPs voted against cuts in lone-parent benefits.

The evidence this week was accumulating that the government has belatedly realised that it has blundered on single-parent benefits.

The issue of lone mothers is also sensitive for the current government, as was shown by the revolt over cuts to lone-parent benefits.

Many Labour MPs look back with regret on sheep-like votes – on Iraq for some, or on the day early on when some voted in tears to cut single-parent benefits.

Last May, in the biggest revolt in this parliament, 65 Labour backbenchers voted against cuts to incapacity benefit in the bill and 14 abstained, far outstripping the revolt over the cut to one-parent benefits.