The phrase "avoid benefit" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is discussing the intention to refrain from gaining an advantage or positive outcome from a situation.
Example: "In order to maintain fairness, we must avoid benefit from any insider information."
Alternatives: "refrain from advantage" or "eschew gain".
The academy's report, "Strengthening Social Security: What Do Americans Want?," shows that Americans are in fact willing to pay more into the system to avoid benefit cuts, including a reduced cost-of-living adjustment and further increases in the normal retirement age.
The state was even able to avoid benefit cuts for pensioners during the recession.
But as a retiring baby boomer generation puts financial strain on Social Security and as most private, defined contribution plans prove to be inadequate sources of retirement income, advocates prefer lifting the cap to avoid benefit cuts.
Even if you're an avid free-marketeer you can't avoid benefiting, directly and indirectly, from such public investments.
Former classmates say Mr. Obama chose not to mention his race in his application to Harvard Law School to avoid benefiting from affirmative action, an assertion that his campaign declined to confirm or deny.
Arlan Suderman, chief commodities economist at INTL FCStone, said there was little way for the White House bailout program to avoid benefiting wealthier farmers given that only 150,000 farmers produce about 90percentt of the nation's crops.
For instance, in his 1894 An Autobiography, he insists that since citizens "cannot avoid benefiting by the social order which government maintains," they have no right to opt out from its protection (Spencer, 1904, vol. 1: 362).
Both are trying to make as much money as humanly possible, but the Wall Street firms will always have an advantage in expertise and information, and it is almost impossible to avoid benefiting from that advantage.
As a result of physical activity, 12.46 deaths were avoided (benefit:risk ratio 77).
They say things like, oh, it's just employers avoiding benefits.
In effect, he said: "To avoid cutting benefits later, cut benefits now".
