Sentence examples for stopping benefit from inspiring English sources

The Conservative manifesto said the party's welfare policies would create "a welfare system that is fair to those who need it, and fair to those who pay for it too: stopping benefit cheats and ending welfare abuse".

The DWP has increased the use of sanctions – financial penalties, stopping benefit payments for a minimum of four weeks – for claimants who miss appointments or breach job centre rules.

Cameron will claim that the coalition reforms are protecting and targeting support on people in real need, as well as stopping benefits going to those who don't need them, making work always pay more than benefits.

"We are surprised and concerned at reports that ministers believe that stopping benefits is an appropriate or effective way of engaging people with drug or alcohol treatment and supporting their recovery," he said.

The DWP cites flimsy international studies to support its claim that sanctions lead to jobs, but has never analysed its own data to discover how stopping benefits affects claimant behaviour or employment outcomes.

Crucially, this doesn't just mean "stopping benefits", but can be a way to move people, especially those with what are euphemistically called "chaotic lifestyles" into more structured and intensive intervention.

THIS week Harriet Harman, the social-security secretary, floated the idea of an "affluence test" to stop benefit payments to the better-off.

In order to stop benefit tourism, the British government fences these payments off behind a tough, UK-devised test called "right to reside", which is pretty fierce, but which does not apply to British nationals at all.

David Cording, the deputy chief executive of Crimestoppers, told the BBC that working closely with the government for the first time would help stop benefit fraud as it had in other areas of crime.

Several governments want to keep freedom of movement in the EU, but to stop benefits tourism.

At the same time, he said, you also "stop benefiting from things you did a long time ago".