Peers voted by 246 to 230, majority of 16, to reject plans to cut some of the benefits given to children on the lower rate of Disability Living Allowance (DLA), during third reading of the Welfare Reform Bill on 31 January 2012.
In addition, MEPs get a flat-rate allowance of 304 euros for each day of attendance at official parliament meetings, to cover accommodation and meals.
We Are Spartacus, an online campaign group about disabled people's views on the welfare system, analysed figures from the Department for Work and Pensions and Motability, the organisation that supplies lease cars and specialist converted vehicles to disabled people claiming the highest mobility rate of Disability Living Allowance.
During question time in the Lords on 30 November 2011, Lord Lucas asked the government whether it would require interns who work for an organisation for longer than two months to be paid at or above the rate of Jobseeker's Allowance.
We will ask the Committee on Standards in Public Life to look at the circumstances applying in Northern Ireland before final application of the flat rate allowance for MPs representing Northern Ireland.
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.
Carter said he learned of conditions in which the official inflation rate has soared to about 231 million percent while thousands of Zimbabweans stand in line for their daily allowance of about 2 cents a day -- from their own bank accounts.
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Most working age benefits, such as Jobseekers Allowance and Child Benefit, will go up by 1%, less than the rate of inflation, for the next three years.
Chancellor George Osborne announced that most working age benefits, such as Jobseekers Allowance and child benefit, will go up by 1%, less than the rate of inflation, for the next three years.
We propose that, for MPs representing constituencies outside London, the Personal Additional Accommodation Expenditure (commonly known as the 'second home' allowance) should be abolished and be replaced by a flat-rate daily allowance, based on actual attendance at Westminster on parliamentary and government business or the business of the Opposition frontbenches.
Other parts of the plan include a reduction in tax rates, including cutting the top rate from 39% to 33%, an increase in the child tax allowance, and a restoration of the married couples allowance.
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