He also argues that pensioners' top-up benefits - the free bus pass, TV licence and winter fuel allowance - should be means-tested for the richest.
Universal credit - being introduced by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith this year - aims to simplify the welfare system by replacing a number of existing working-age benefits, including the income-based jobseeker's allowance, income-related employment support allowance, housing benefit, working tax credit, child tax credit and income support.
The universal credit will replace jobseeker's allowance, tax credits, income support, employment and support allowance - formerly known as incapacity benefit - and housing benefits with a single payment.
The government's Universal Credit will eventually replace housing benefits, jobseeker's allowance, tax credits, income support, employment and support allowance - formerly known as incapacity benefit - with a single payment.
Of these, only the last - an increase of the personal allowance - affects the majority of taxpayers and potentially involves a lot of money.
Of 71 Lib Dem peers present in the Lords on Wednesday, five voted against the government to exempt cancer patients from being means-tested for employment and support allowance - and 24 abstained.
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The watchdog also raised concerns about the decision to uprate local housing allowance - which covers private accommodation - by the CPI rate of inflation rather than pegging it to average rent rises in an area.
So most working-age benefits - including Jobs Seekers' Allowance, Employment Support Allowance and Income Support - will be uprated by 1% for the next three years.
Family-related allowances include a household allowance, a dependant child allowance, an educational allowance and a pre-school allowance.
In September, 4, 700 18-24-year-olds in Wales had been claiming jobseeker's allowance for more than a year - the highest it has been since spring May 1997.
The incapacity benefit will be replaced by an employment-and-support allowance, which will take two forms.
Last month 77, 700 people in Wales claimed the allowance - 200 more than in January.
The pair got married anywa y and during the four long months while he underwent rehabilitation, they lived on his sickness allowance - 60% of normal salary.
The same is true of the individuals affected by the increase in the personal allowance - which, incidentally, the OBR says has put the government on course to achieve at least one of its targets.
Look, say the pundits, at the net effect of his new lower income-tax band (starting next month), the cut in the basic rate of income tax from 23% to 22%, the changes to national insurance, the abolition of the married couples' tax allowance and the mortgage-interest allowance (all starting a year from now), the new child tax credit (from 2001), etc.
This is income from almost all sources (including tax-exempt bonds, for example), reduced by income taxes and by an allowance for subsistence-level living.
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By enacting Section 107(2), Congress simply kept the existing tax treatment of all ministers by recognizing in the statute that their cash housing allowance was tax-free like the cash military housing allowance.
Of the five fields that have received approval or come on-stream this quarter, four qualify for the small field tax allowance and one qualifies for the ultra-heavy oilfield allowance.
In December, about 4, 500 18-24-year-olds in Wales had been on jobseekers allowance for more than a year.
The number of 18 to 24-year-olds in Wales claiming jobseeker's allowance for more than a year stood at 4, 455 in August - up from 1, 130 in August 2011.
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The government is seeking to reassess all 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit - and its successor, employment and support allowance (ESA) - by 2014.
We played a big part in getting mobility allowance for deaf-blind people.
President Obama had never blatantly expressed support for allowance of same-sex marriages in the United States, leaving his position in a bit of a flimsy, wishy-washy grey area.
More than 170 MEPs have called for the European Parliament's Alliance of European National Movements - which includes the BNP - to have its allowance removed, arguing that its members fail to follow "the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law".
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The BBC understands discussions are continuing in Whitehall about whether it is possible to limit pensioner benefits - such as the winter fuel allowance, bus pass and free TV licence - without breaking Prime Minister David Cameron's election promise that he would preserve them.
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Websites like Tykoon and FamZoo aim to bring 21st-century tools to the 19th-century invention of allowance.
The Daily Telegraph said Mr Bercow had changed the designation of his second home - a practice known as flipping - to maximise his allowance claims but the MP said the moves were due to changes in family circumstances.
An idea that has the backing of Mr Cameron is to ban ministers with grace-and-favour residences from claiming any allowance for a second home.
CESI, which said young people in the UK were facing a similar situation to the 1980s recession, found that five of the six Olympic boroughs had the highest proportion of 16 to 24-year-olds in London claiming the allowance.
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So when the 27-year-old director built a new office for his family companies -- Rathi Transpower and Polybond India, which make rubber components and water-pump parts -- executives got a meal allowance instead of a waitered room.
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