Sentence examples for subsistence payment from inspiring English sources

Redundant workers receive an average subsistence payment of just over $100 per year, less than half the national average.

It was explicitly introduced in 1971 as an overnight, subsistence payment, directly modelled on the low rates civil servants working away from home overnight received.

The bill included a 3.7percentt raise for military personnel and a subsistence payment of up to $500 per month for the more than 5,100 military families who receive food stamps.

With those who have no recourse to public funds – who have made up half the 61 families it's helped so far – living on £37 a week (a subsistence payment from social services because they have children), offering free nappies and wipes was quickly agreed to be essential.

Then there's the fact that, despite the low uptake of benefits among recent immigrants, politicians and certain newspapers talk constantly of cynical, greedy scroungers, travelling hundreds of miles across the globe purely for a subsistence payment and the chance to experience drizzle.

This ensured that laid-off workers still had somewhere affordable to live (they also got subsistence payments that today's migrants would envy).

Implying that subsistence payments for people who are out of work, sick, disabled or on low incomes are a perk is to play straight into the hands of the wrong side of the debate.

"We note that subsistence payments for food are commonly given to those who are working away from their normal workplace, whether or not they are required to work unsocial hours," it said.

The former pig farmer, who was Tory leader of Essex county council before becoming a life peer, is accused of claiming the subsistence payments on days when he spent less than 40 minutes at the Palace of Westminster.

There, they are required to pay fees that block many from ever being able to build lives of stability; subsistence payments amount to more than $100 per week, and the payments make it next to impossible to accumulate the savings necessary to pay for deposits on housing.

The idea is that to receive the sub-poverty-level subsistence Centrelink payment of $250 a week, dole recipients will be mandated into forced labour or deprived of subsistence completely.