Working people pay 30 percent of their income for rent; welfare recipients pay 30 percent of their subsistence payments.

For example, if breakfast is being provided to a voluntary worker then subsistence payments should not include money for breakfast.

She receives subsistence payments from the organisation to pay her share of food and energy bills, her laundry and her toiletries.

Like other laid-off workers, the disabled are supposed to continue receiving small subsistence payments from the companies where they worked.

WELFARE The 60-year-old Federal commitment to provide subsistence payments to poor children and their parents would be ended.

They recommended that volunteers receive subsistence payments for child minding and other special needs.

Parish authorities generally were constantly reviewing their ideas about what constituted a minimum acceptable subsistence payment during this period.

The permanently unemployable are given disability reviews for continued subsistence payments, Mr. O'Rourke added.

Half of all welfare recipients, according to studies cited in Congress, receive subsistence payments only temporarily, in response to some one-time misfortune.

Mr. Cheng's neighbors in Apartment Block No. 38 have not been able to find work to supplement their $14.44 monthly subsistence payment.