basic allowance

基本解释

This applies to the Basic Housing Allowance , Basic Allowance for Subsistence, and for any Overseas housing allowance.
这适用于基本住房补贴，基本生活津贴，以及海外房屋津贴。
Students who borrow money starting in July 2014 will be allowed to cap repayments at 10 percent of income above a basic living allowance, instead of 15 percent.
2014年七月起贷款的学生将被允许以基本生活费的10%的上限来还款，而不是15%。
Some say step pricing can be used to protect a basic water allowance for drinking, cooking and washing – either for very low prices or for free, as it is in South Africa.
有些人说无论原本水价是极其低廉还是免费，可以通过逐步涨价来为饮用，做饭和洗濯给予基本的用水补助保护，就像南非做的那样。

On the positive side, it would seem that, thanks to the often substantial increase in the basic allowance and the reduction or removal of exemptions, fears that the flat tax reforms would greatly reduce personal-income tax progressivity—the notion according to which economic agents should pay higher effective tax rates the more they earn—have been overblown.
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Two-thirds of those on the company's programme are on job seekers' allowance—basic unemployment benefit.
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