invalidity benefit

noun

1. IVB. (formerly, in the British National Insurance scheme) a weekly payment to a person who had been off work through illness for more than six months: replaced by incapacity benefit in 1995

Example Sentences

Her husband, Frans, is disabled and receives invalidity benefit payments from the Belgian government after contracting peritonitis in 2006, a debilitating abdominal infection that left him in a coma.

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One of the obsessions of the coalition now is to cut welfare payments in general and invalidity benefit in particular.

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Yet, ironically, it was the Thatcher government that largely created the so-called dependency culture by deliberately encouraging employment exchanges to direct people towards invalidity benefit in order to massage the unemployment figures.

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