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

Figures released by the DWP in July showed that in November 2022, 516,000 people who were in receipt of a sickness benefit did not quality for PIP, 29% of all recipients.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2023

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

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2017

When Mrs Francis was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer, Mr Francis says Dunbar froze her sickness benefit account.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2015

Missing so many meals caused complications with his diabetes, leading the doctor to sign him off sick – though his sickness benefit still hadn't come through when he was interviewed in February.

From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2013

Such a law would provide a sickness benefit for a number of weeks, arrange for medical care, and, in case of death, pay a funeral benefit.

From Problems in American Democracy by Williamson, Thames Ross