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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The proportion of working age people claiming incapacity benefit had fallen well below 5% in 2015, now it's 7%.

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Incapacity benefit - which is mainly paid through the health element of Universal Credit - goes to those deemed to be unable to work for health reasons.

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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.

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One used to be known as incapacity benefit.

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About two fifths of new incapacity benefit claimants under 25 came directly from education.

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