This was because after a publicised argument his father no longer wanted to pay a supplementary allowance.

First, the expose of MPs' abuse of their supplementary allowances system.

This business entitled his father to a supplementary allowance for fuel, which was rationed during the Second World War.

The supplementary allowance A weekly allowance that can be made to those in financial need who are not in receipt of a State retirement pension (see leaflet SB1).

Another teacher who also asked not to be identified said Mr. Possner had recently pressured teachers into agreeing to shift part of a $227-a-teacher supplementary allowance for classroom supplies toward an office copier.

This was not accepted by all the main political parties, with some preferring instead to consider a supplementary allowance to assist all non-executive party leaders (with more than 15 MSPs) in undertaking their duties.

She therefore concluded that 'it may be necessary to make the State system a flat rate one and secure the necessary gradation by supplementary allowances from an occupational pool for all the higher grade occupations'(Rathbone, 1949, p. 236).

The case began in 1988 at a city shelter on Wards Island when the state began deducting 57 cents from Mr. Hill's daily food supplementary allowance of $2.14 on the ground he was being served free breakfasts at the shelter.

The introduction of a Miner's Charter in 1946 instituted a five-day work week for miners and a standardised day wage structure, and in 1948 a Colliery Workers Supplementary Scheme was approved, providing supplementary allowances to disabled coal-workers and their dependants.