unemployment benefits

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of unemployment benefit.
  unemployment benefit

  noun

  an allowance of money paid, usually weekly, to an unemployed worker by a state or federal agency or by the worker's labor union or former employer during all or part of the period of unemployment.

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unemployment benefits

Take the number of people each week who apply for unemployment benefits: The number who sought benefits in mid-August fell to an extremely low 169,786.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

Lee’s $270 weekly unemployment had run out over the winter—under South Carolina law, you can collect unemployment benefits for up to 20 weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

He was downsized, and when his unemployment benefits ran out, he began collecting Social Security one year before reaching his full retirement age.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

The returns showed that they paid for Social Security coverage, Medicare and the state’s unemployment benefits fund as part of those expenses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

“OK. So . . . you’re not registered to collect unemployment benefits, nothing like that?”

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

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