sickness benefit

British  

noun

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

2. (in New Zealand) a payment made by the Department of Social Welfare to a person unable to work owing to a medical condition

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Example Sentences

Linda receives £77 a week sickness benefit and does not have a private pension.

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The 61-year-old described himself as unemployed and said he had been claiming sickness benefit for two years.

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Claimants for the main sickness benefit may have been underpaid by as much as £20,000, according to a new report.

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Critics say the main sickness benefit, the replacement for incapacity benefit, has so far failed to achieve the government's goals.

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Painfully thin, emaciated "with the cancer back" and on sickness benefit, she lives alone in Sunshine Lane.

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