sickness benefit
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈsɪk.nəs ˈbɛn.ɪ.fɪt/
- UK
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prestación por enfermedad
- Almost one million people who applied for sickness benefit have instead been found fit for work, the latest government analysis has found.
Examples
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The size of the marginal group (those unable to obtain certain welfare rights) varies between 10 and 40 percent within the four major welfare programs: retirement pensions, sickness benefits, family protection, and unemployment insurance.
Academic text (1991) -
Male and female workers, for example, act as individuals (in voting) and as class members (through their trade union), and are given benefits as productive individuals (sickness benefits) and as members of the working class (solidaristic wage policies).
Academic text (1991) -
If you have a 21-day all-accident coverage costing $30.95, you will have coverage for $50,000 death benefits, $5,000 medical benefits, and up to $20 a day in hospital sickness benefits.
Blog text (24) -
Since levels of social assistance and sickness benefits are tied to the unemployment benefit, dramatic cutbacks occurred in the Danish welfare state during the 1980s (Greve 1993, 73).
Academic text (1996) -
For example, I'm currently unemployed, finished my course at tech, with a diploma in IT, trying to get a full-time job and having a very hard time finding employment here without any sort of experience. I'm 19, I only have a learner's driving license because I have no one to teach me. My parents are divorced, I have a very ill mother who can't work and is on sickness benefit, a younger sister who is still at school and can't work, and a rich father who refuses to help me out financially.
Blog text (16) -
Those on long-term sickness benefits, such as incapacity benefit, severe disablement allowance, or (from 2008 when it replaced existing benefits) employment and support allowance (ESA), have been a particular target for Osborne as part of his aim to reduce the UK's welfare bill by 15 billion.
Academic text (2010) -
Many workers rely on sickness benefit to support themselves when they cannot work due to illness.
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She applied for sickness benefit after her surgery, hoping to receive financial support during her recovery.
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Receiving sickness benefit can help individuals cover their living expenses while they are unable to work.
Synonyms
Money the government pays to someone who cannot work because they are ill
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'money paid to someone unable to work due to illness' follows directly from combining 'sickness' (illness) and 'benefit' (a payment/support). This compound follows common, cross-linguistically familiar welfare/insurance naming patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the overall meaning.
Etymology
Sickness benefit is a simple compound of sickness, meaning being ill, and benefit, meaning a 'help or payment'. The image is easy: money given to help someone who cannot work because they are ill, so the phrase means 'money paid by the government when you cannot work because of illness'.