The allowance system was a system of poor relief in Britain during the 1800s.

The allowance system allowed the able-bodied poor to get allowance to boost their wages.

Under a marketable allowance system, there is a presumption that permits will be traded to those companies which have the highest pollution abatement costs.

Other couples use an allowance system, usually given by a husband to his wife as 'housekeeping' money.

The allowance system began in the days when most custodians lived with their families in apartments in the school buildings where they worked.

Much of this adverse criticism also drew attention to the usual association of the allowance system with some form of "make-work" scheme.

All this suggests that the allowance system was a response to rather than a cause of the relief burden.

After liberalization in 1990, Malawi reverted to a pre-liberalization allowance system that limited tobacco farmers' production to a certain productivity quota.

The allowance system was abolished in 1996.

The measure includes a complex allowance system intended to help Midwestern states with the added burden of reducing pollutants that cause acid rain.