hardship allowance

The vacation hardship allowance was almost unheard of and was not being demanded.

"They pay me well- there's a hardship allowance.

Liveability rankings are designed for use by employers assigning hardship allowances as part of job relocation.

United Nations staff members assigned to Nairobi will now get a hardship allowance amounting to 15 percent of their salary and a longer home leave.

A London-based human resources consultant recommends that companies pay a 10 percent hardship allowance to lure expatriates, partly because of air quality.

Landlords are also given so-called hardship allowances of $20 a month on apartments that lease for less than $400 a month.

Pay ranking does not include additional benefits such as medical, pension, living expenses, and bonuses (for example hazard pay, hardship allowance, field allowance, etc.)

Doctors are requesting a hardship allowance for those young physicians dispatched against their will to remote rural hospitals where the conditions are especially grim and the hours essentially around the clock.

He said Labour would invest £600m in education, reduce class sizes to below 30 pupils, modernise old schools, and restore student grants, housing benefit allowances and hardship allowances.

Other payments on top can include premiums for foreign service (often termed inducement payments), hardship allowances, cost of living allowances, housing allowances, tax equalisation payments and bonuses.

As with foreign service premia, hardship allowances are normally calculated as a percentage of salary - with higher percentages, sometimes 30 per cent or more, applying in areas where it is particularly difficult or unpleasant to live and work.

The salary of internationally assigned personnel customarily often consists of standard salary and monetary benefits such as cost of living and/or hardship allowances (COLA) supported by non-monetary incentives i.e. housing and education.

I also find it hard to understand why it is specifically the EU and the Commission that are to assess the quality of education, especially access to study loans and grants, hardship allowances, university residences and, in particular, student health care.

Hardship allowances are paid as compensation to those expatriates relocated to countries where they have to face greater discomforts or difficulties than they would normally experience at home: climate, unstable political environments, isolation, separation from children, poor sanitation, and so on.

However, the 1986 Social Security Act froze the reduced earnings allowance (previously called the special hardship allowance) on retirement and offset it against earnings-related pension, thereby reducing the compensation for the impact of disablement on those over retirement age.

Does the Secretary of State recognise that the access funds are in no sense a substitute for student eligibility for social security and for vacation hardship allowance and that mature students in particular have been plunged into severe hardship by the Government's policies?

In the light of that, will he reconsider the abolition of vacation hardship allowance, especially as it was abolished in clear breach of undertakings given in the House that it would remain as a safety net following the abolition of social security provision?

Remuneration packages may combine foreign service premia and hardship allowances or treat the payment of foreign service premia on a similar basis to that of hardship allowances, that is, the former are increased according to the environment in which the expatriate is asked to work.