allowances

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Across party lines, governments now promise a familiar basket of benefits: pensions, direct cash transfers, scholarships, free or subsidised electricity, cheap foodgrain, self-help group support for women and allowances for unemployed youth.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

Tweens can create simple budgets for their allowances and map out savings goals, like how many weeks it would take to save for a videogame, and what the tradeoffs are.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

As well as changes to the stability reserve, manufacturers would also be given roomier benchmarks for free allowances, Von der Leyen said last month.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Pakistan has introduced a shortened workweek, cut fuel allowances for public employees, and taken a majority of government vehicles off the road.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Because he had once written a book, a dry treatise on melancholy, he felt the world should ever after make special allowances for him.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood