benefit

In a sentence

Six example sentences with benefit, each labelled with its topic.

• The unemployment benefit ran for six months, which kept spending in the mill towns from collapsing entirely.

  Economics

• After the layoff she lived on a severance benefit while retraining as a welder at the community college.

  Business

• Council members argued over whether the heating benefit should reach every pensioner or only those below a set income.

  Politics

• The disability benefit covered the mortgage but nothing else, so the family drew down their savings for groceries.

  Finance

• The tribunal ruled that the housing benefit had been wrongly stopped and ordered eight months of back payments.

  Law

• Britain's first old-age benefit in 1909 paid five shillings a week to those over seventy with almost no other income.

  History

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• precise
• definitely
• apparent
• majority
• selected
• element
• facility
• credits
• distinction
• network
• complement
• obtain