separation allowance

"Severance pay is a short-term separation allowance," the judge said.

This was incorporated in the separation allowance paid to the wives of men in the armed forces.

He received a posting in September 1914 at a war office and his job was to scrutinize applications for separation allowance.

Towards the end of the war separation allowances were extended to the families of commissioned officers.

Or had she become embittered, coping alone with the new-born, ekeing out a frugal existence on her niggardly separation allowance?

Statement to substantiate payment of family separation allowance, when completed and filed in a service members record entitles them to FSA.

At a time when Walter was getting a shilling a day (plus separation allowance, plus child allowance), even unskilled workers in the boot and shoe trade were clearing thirty bob a week.

The payment of these separation allowances, which Eleanor Rathbone called 'the largest experiment in the State endowment of maternity the world has ever seen'(Rathbone, 1917; p. 55), was important in two respects.

Perhaps Mr. Pryor had reflected that housekeepers were hard to get and that there were many Milgrave homes open to Miranda--also, that there was such a thing as a separation allowance.

On the same day, 180 sergeants forwarded a petition to the Secretary of State complaining about the pay issue, the failure to increase their separation allowance, and the fact that they had been discriminated against in the area of promotions.

The moneylender dealing in small sums was also often 'a poor woman, who lets us have money when we needs it'; the 1917 survey found that these were sometimes soldiers' wives lending their separation allowances, bigger sums being lent by men.