Dennis B. Ross, a former adviser to President Obama on Iran and the Middle East and now with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said in an interview that the funds came despite "a very stringent environment for assistance, where it was being cut across the board," and that they were "emblematic" of the administration's commitment to Israel's security.
Duties of assistance are stringent if they are not unduly costly to the one assisting.
One possible reason is that TANF subjected recipients of cash assistance to stringent work requirements with financial penalties for non-compliance.
"Monitor, our regulator, has supported the trust in the conclusion that the management or the board of this hospital can't save £40m [per year]." Ms Walker said trusts had to go through stringent checks before receiving assistance.
Mission accomplished in the "War on Poverty". So declares the White House, which in a white paper released last week from the president's Council of Economic Advisers claims that the war is "largely over and a success" and that it is time for more stringent work requirements for public assistance.
Unemployment assistance would be more stringent.
Another reason may be that people cut from general assistance because of more stringent workfare rules simply need more time to save enough money to rent a room on their own, he said.
Dissidents in Syriza who remained opposed to the stringent conditions of the EU-backed financial assistance programme should draw lessons from the result, said Hatzis.
Participants cited (1) frustration over the lack of financial resources and increasingly stringent eligibility criteria, (2) barriers to providing assistance such as process inefficiencies, (3) limited resources to identify at- risk patients and refer them for services, and (4) inadequate insurance coverage and availability.
The one dealing with countries in particularly serious financial difficulties or in receipt of financial assistance, provides for even more stringent rules, thereby ensuring that clear procedures for these circumstances are embedded in EU law.
Others look at the strong profit reports and see a strategic push to get out from under the stringent compensation rules the Treasury imposed on assistance-receiving banks.
