Bereavement Allowance, Bereavement Payment, Child Benefit, Guardian's Allowance, Maternity Allowance, Statutory Maternity Pay, Statutory Sick Pay, Widowed Parent's Allowance.
Without any statutory minimum limits, allowances can be as low and excess penalties as high as airlines want.
Maternity allowance; statutory sick/maternity/paternity/adoption pay (these will be treated as earnings for UC).
This beneficial position may partly be explained by the provision of funeral allowances from statutory providers of health insurance that granted the bereaved greater financial scope.
Most benefits and tax credits paid to working-age adults – including jobseekers' allowance, child tax credits, statutory sick pay, and employment and support allowance – will no longer rise in line with inflation, but will increase by 1% a year for three years.
Some 2.5m people receiving working tax credit, 3.7m receiving child tax credit, 480,000 people receiving housing allowance, 232,000 people receiving statutory maternity pay and 59,000 people receiving maternity allowance would be affected.
If you're in the unfortunate situation where your HIV or AIDS symptoms are so severe that you can no longer work, then you should see if you qualify for employer paid disability, or government sponsored disability, such as Social Security (in the United States) or Statutory Sick Pay, Employment and Support Allowance, or Disability Living Allowance (if you're in the UK).
Lucy Anderson, a TUC equal rights officer, said: "The most effective way to keep women in touch with the labour market after having children is to increase the coverage of statutory maternity pay and maternity allowance".
Young families will also benefit from a new parental rights bill fulfilling government promises to extend statutory maternity pay and maternity allowance from six to nine months from April 2007.
The government subsidises employment costs to working women through Statutory Maternity Pay or Maternity Allowance and Sure Start maternity grants to unemployed pregnant women.
