Example sentences of "week for a married " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will increase the basic retirement pension by an extra £5 a week for a single person and £8 a week for a married couple . |
| 2 | I beg to move , That this House , noting that the ten million people today living on or below the income support level of less than £40 a week for an adult represent the greatest numbers in poverty in Britain since the war , and that the Government has as a deliberate policy over twelve years further impoverished the poorest one third of the nation to make the rich richer , calls on the Government to reverse its policies of increasing poverty and unemployment and to give priority to the growing millions excluded from the rights and opportunities of real citizenship by increasing pensions by £5 per week for a single pensioner and by £8 a week for a married couple , by re-instituting the pension link with earnings which the Government broke twelve years ago , and by restoring to families the losses in child benefit from three years of government freeze . |
| 3 | By contrast , I make it clear that Labour believes it is right and just and should be the first priority for pensioners to get an increase of £5 a week for a single pensioner and £8 a week for a married couple , given the mean and miserable way in which they have been treated over the past decade . |
| 4 | But how would he survive on a pension of £90 per week for a married couple , with the cost of living today ? |
| 5 | ‘ With anyone earning over £40,000 paying their fair share of the tax burden , it means we can raise pensions by £5 per week for a single person and £8 a week for a married couple . ’ |