"receive allowance" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when referring to a person receiving a regular allowance from someone else, such as a parent providing an allowance for a child. For example, "The child's parents gave her a regular allowance each month to cover her living expenses."
Yet a later letter from the DWP, dated 12 February 2015, states that Ava's disability is not severe enough to entitle her to receive allowance for personal care.
Rainy Days Ahead A SURVEY done by International Communications Research for Merrill Lynch found that despite an increase in financial education, fewer teens are saving what they earn or otherwise receive (allowance).
(Southern Province FGD participant) A participant commented on treatment versus prevention: Health workers working with HIV-positive patients in hospitals receive allowance of 40% [sectoral hazardous allowance], low but something, while preventive health workers receive nothing.
Next year Ross McEwan, the RBS chief executive, will receive allowances worth £1m – the same size as his salary.
A baseline target, or cap, is established, and companies whose emissions fall below that cap receive allowances, which they can sell (or save to use later).
'This review needs to be conducted rapidly to avoid any further erosion of public confidence in the system by which MPs are paid and receive allowances,' Milburn said.
Currently, qualified parents who have children younger than 3 receive allowances of $50 a month for the first and second children and $100 a month for every child thereafter.
Refugees in reception sites only receive allowances in kind instead of cash benefits (AsylVerfG, Article 2 (3)).
Finally, the opportunity to receive allowances during training and review meetings was cited as a motivating factor by HSAs.
Most CDE wanted to be trained and to receive allowances and other incentives which were not currently available.
Caregivers could bring sick children to the HSA at any time, and HSAs would have liked to receive allowances for working during the night and on weekends.
