Sentences with phrase «support allowance»

Like many who live off employment support allowance, I find myself missing meals to cut costs.

The telephone support allowance is a means tested payment for those living alone and of limited means and is intended to assist in the cost of communications and / or a home alert solutions.

«Per this approval, salaries, retention premium, critical support allowance and conversion difference are to be paid to eligible staff,» the letter said.

Typically, this means a child support allowance from the couple's joint funds to whoever has primary custody of the child.

As well as universal credit, the Labour frontbench, and Tory MPs, have been pushing for changes to planned cuts to the employment support allowance for disabled people.

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Thirty - nine per cent of those who applied for employment and support allowance between October 2008 and August 2010 were judged to be fit for work.

Bafflingly, the department said it ignored the bidders» previous record in providing assessments for employment support allowance when deciding whom to award contracts to.

Citizen's Advice, it should be said, deny they've watered down their criticism of the government and pointed me towards recent campaigns on employment support allowance as evidence they're still robust in their relationship to government.

In 2013, two years before the election, top rate taxpayers will lose their child benefit and the first sick and disabled people will lose their employment support allowance under the time limit introduced 12 months earlier.

The government plan to remove the «youth provision» for young disabled people, which grants them a contributory employment and support allowance despite not building up national insurance.

The party would scrap the «punitive» bedroom tax, reinstate housing benefit for 18 - 21 year olds and cuts to bereavement support allowances that came into effect last month.

For a shared custody arrangement, the Delaware Child Support Formula allows for an additional adjustment (in the allocation of the primary support allowance and the parents» combined SOLA), so that the parent responsible for paying support will generally pay a lower amount.

Customers who qualify for the living alone allowance (LAA) and who at the same time are in receipt of the free fuel allowance (FFA)(which is means tested allowance) will automatically qualify for the telephone support allowance.

According to government figures released by the DWP last month, there was a total of just 1,540 people claiming employment support allowance on the basis of obesity last year.

She explained: «Reversing some of the decisions that they have made, such as cuts to employment support allowances.

Most working - age benefits - including jobseekers» allowance, employment support allowance and income support - will be uprated by just one per cent for the next three year, just like public sector pay.

The sick and disabled are being left out in the cold following today's replacement of incapacity benefit with an employment and support allowance, rights groups have said.

Hi Stuart, As a Lib Dem, let me answer some of your questions: Removing contributory employment support allowance - I would support this.

Thousands will lose benefits as harsher medical approved Tens of thousands of claimants facing losing their benefit on review, or on being transferred from incapacity benefit, as plans to make the employment and support allowance (ESA) medical much harder to pass are approved by the secretary of state for work and pensions, Yvette Cooper.

Labour's Helen Goodman says a constituent of hers who is recovering from cancer has had here ESA (employment support allowance) withdrawn.

· you received income support, income - based jobseeker's allowance, income related employment and support allowance or pension credit for the whole 2013 - 14 tax year, or according to HMRC data, you only have employment or occupational pension (unless you only have a temporary national insurance number or made a fresh claim in 2013 - 14 but did not provide your actual previous year income at the time)

The problems with processing the benefit, which replaces the old disability living allowance (DLA), echo ongoing issues with the rollout of employment and support allowance (ESA), which have also provoked profound unhappiness from disability groups.

I have repeatedly called on the Department to publish these statistics, following the ruling from the Information Commissioner in April which stated that they should publish data on the number of people who were in receipt of employment and support allowance and incapacity benefit who have died since November 2011, including those found fit for work.

When the Lords voted down Iain Duncan Smith's attempt to slash # 30 per week from employment and support allowance (ESA), campaigners thought they'd gained a small victory.

A cynic might suggest that simplistic figures such as these are designed to shock - but an independent report carried out by occupational physician Dr Paul Litchfield has highlighted concerns about the way in which work capability assessments - instrumental in decisions about employment and support allowance - are taking place.

Reeves told the Commons she had constituents come to her who had waited months for Atos to give them an appointment for employment and support allowance and later for the personal independence payment (Pip).

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April 2012: One - year time limit introduced for claimants of employment support allowance (ESA) judged able to work in future

The universal credit bundles together the six main benefits - jobseeker's allowance, income support, employment and support allowance, working tax credit, child tax credit and housing benefit - into a single payment.

The report also recommended sickness benefits are reviewed, with the employment and support allowance (ESA) for people in the work - related activity group reduced to the level of jobseekers» allowance.

The test will put people either on to jobseekers» allowance (if they're fit for work); employment and support allowance (ESA) work - related activity group (if they need support to prepare for work and need continued support in the workplace) or ESA support group (if their impairment prevents them from working).

They voted by 260 to 216 to reject cuts to employment support allowance, by 234 to 186 to keep the two - year limit on claims rather than the one year limit proposed by government, and by 222 to 166 to exempt cancer sufferers from the limit.

But more importantly the study also shows how cuts to a host of benefits including disability living allowance (DLA), employment and support allowance (ESA), housing benefit and the «bedroom tax» are hitting the same group of disabled people over and over again.

In response to an intervention, Duncan Smith conceded the point about employment and support allowance.

Scope, the disability charity, sent me an email after I posted a summary of the DWP's impact assessment saying that some people on employment and support allowance will be affected.

«We believe far more needs to be done to join up health and skills budgets with the Work Programme to help those on ESA [employment and support allowance, which has replaced incapacity benefit] into work.

The freeze targets jobseeker's allowance, income support, employment support allowance and housing benefit, as well as child benefit and tax credits - affecting 11 million families across the UK.

The MPs will next week publish the full findings of their investigation into the personal independence payment (Pip) and employment support allowance (ESA) systems.

Under the Universal Credit plans, six key means - tested benefits - jobseeker's allowance, employment support allowance, housing benefit, working tax credit, income support and child tax credit - are to be combined into a single payment which ministers say will ensure that claimants are always better off in work and also reduce fraud.

No MPs voted against the SNP's backbench motion to stop the planned cuts to employment support allowance and universal credit, with 127 MPs voting in favour, though the motion is purely symbolic.

From October 2013 to April 2014 about half a million new claimants were due to receive universal credit instead of jobseeker's allowance, employment support allowance, income support, housing benefit, working tax credit and child tax credit.

Children of families receiving income support, employment support allowance (income - related) or income - based jobseeker's allowance are entitled to receive free school meals.

The eligibility criteria for free school meals include families claiming jobseekers» allowance, income - related employment and support allowance and those receiving child tax credit and with an income less than # 16,190 per year.

Department for Work and Pensions early estimate data shows there were 2.475 million people on employment support allowance or incapacity benefit as of April this year, a decrease of 24,000 since November 2015.

You can get it automatically if you're on the state pension or get another social security benefit, such as pension credit, jobseeker's allowance (JSA), or income - related employment and support allowance (ESA).

In addition, you're eligible if you get income support, income - based jobseeker's allowance, income - related employment and support allowance or universal credit (you're excluded if you're employed or self - employed) AND you either have a child who is disabled or under five living with you, or you get a disability or pensioner premium.

This is any money earned from paid work (overtime only counts if you work the hours regularly), self - employed profits or some benefits (such as contribution - based JSA or employment and support allowance, incapacity benefit (in some cases) or carer's allowance but not child, housing, council tax or disability benefits).

If the letter is more than six months old, award letters for jobseeker's allowance (JSA), employment and support allowance (ESA), working tax credit (WTC), universal credit (UC) or income support (IS) should be accompanied by a bank statement showing a DWP payment within the last three months while council tax benefit (CTB) or housing benefit (HB) letters should be accompanied by a rent statement dated within the last three months.