Example sentences of "apply for help " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they applied for help with arrears , " The DHSS told me to sell some of the furniture or the telly . |
| 2 | I was not short of students who applied for help in the most distressing of circumstances : mature students with spouses and children , who had been denied housing benefit and income support to which they had previously been entitled ; landlords pressing for rent payments and students with no money to pay ; arrears of rent building up ; poll tax arrears building up ; overdrafts being extended ; electricity supplies being cut off , in some cases to parents and children . |
| 3 | The university student had applied for help under the NHS Low Income Scheme , but said he had been assessed on a £300 loan he did not take out , which put him 39p in credit and not entitled for help . |
| 4 | A survey by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals found that a fifth of eligible students applied for help from the government-funded Access Fund last academic year . |
| 5 | If you would like to apply for help , or find out who your local representative is , contact your welfare officer . |
| 6 | You can apply for help through the supplementary pension ( income support after April 1988 ) and housing benefit systems . |
| 7 | If you own your own home , you can apply for help with your rates . |
| 8 | This group are not currently paying rent or rates to a private landlord or the Council , so can not currently apply for help . |
| 9 | One major problem is that many people simply do not recognise that they are carers , and do not apply for help . |
| 10 | There is a limited amount of money available for these payments , so social fund officers have to look at the needs of all those who apply for help and decide which needs can be met . |
| 11 | They both apply for help under the scheme above . |