incapacity benefit

British

noun

(in Britain) a regular government payment made to people who are unable to work for an extended period through disability

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Those aged under 22 will no longer be able to claim the incapacity benefit top-up to universal credit under these proposals.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2025

And from 2015, more and more people claimed incapacity benefit.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025

But you can only receive incapacity benefit if your income and savings are below a certain level, so freezing payments would impact people who are worse off.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025

Meanwhile there have been cuts in incapacity benefit of 13%.

From The Guardian • Dec. 4, 2012

More than 25% of the working population in Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent are claiming out-of-work benefits, either incapacity benefit or jobseeker's allowance.

From The Guardian • Jul. 9, 2011

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