living expenses

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However, compared to their high reliance on informal care, they are more independent from their families in terms of financing their livingexpenses.
By the early 1980s, formal sector salaries were insufficient to meet livingexpenses.
Most fathers of the period paid another 3,000-4,000 pesos for their daughters' livingexpenses, and up to 1,500 pesos for their entry expenses.
We also include livingexpenses in the cases where these form at least one-quarter of total compensation.
The total costs of community care, including livingexpenses, were generally less than the cost of nursing home care.
The new payment was intended to meet the day to day livingexpenses of the farm family.
The men while supplementing family livingexpenses undertake projects such as the education of the children and housing provision.
This does not include costs related to assisted livingexpenses for elderly hearing-impaired people.
But her husband refused to contribute to her livingexpenses, claiming that he could not afford to support two families.
The answer, more often than not, is that we require more income in order to meet livingexpenses.
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