The scheme for claiming the allowance, from which peers meet their subsistence and overnight accommodation costs, requires members to certify that "they are receiving the allowance in respect of parliamentary work".
The money was supposed to persuade parents who would otherwise push their offspring into low-paid manual work to direct them into training instead.Yet a study commissioned by the previous government and published just before last year's election found that only 12% of the teenagers receiving the allowance said they would not be able to attend college without it.
Ross McEwan, RBS chief executive, is not receiving the allowances this year while Bruce van Saun, the former finance director who now runs RBS's US arm Citizens, is receiving his awards in the US.
Bethany Payne, 18, a student at the University of Exeter, receives the allowance for her repetitive strain injury.
If a disabled person goes back to rehabilitative work they can earn up to €350 a week and still receive the allowance.
(Claimants may not receive the allowance if they already get more in state pension).Claims for carer's allowance can already be made online: a test version is up and running.
Carney will receive the allowance as part of a generous package put together by the chancellor, George Osborne, to lure him from his current job in Ottawa as boss of the Canadian central bank.
A group of charities published a report yesterday, Don't Limit Mobility, setting out their concerns about the cut, arguing that local authorities are in no position to meet the shortfall, and warning that the impact on those who receive the allowance will be "massive", "with many left unable to afford to leave their home, and denied the independence most people take for granted".
In order to receive the allowance the child has to be under 16, need extra care or have walking difficulties, reside in Great Britain or any other European Economic Area country, and have lived in Great Britain for two out of the last three years if over three years old.
After the child was 3 years old, they were required to be involved in education or training in order to receive the allowance for the next 2 years.
However, School Minister Nick Gibb cited research in which 90% of EMA recipients questioned said they would stay in education even if they did not receive the allowance.
