Sentence examples for benefit meaning from inspiring English sources

But she does receive £1,076 a year in child benefit, meaning a total net income of £27,963.

Cameron has ruled out touching benefits for elderly people and child benefit, meaning the bulk of the savings will have to come from other working-age welfare payments.

The church-run shelter said that £15 of the £25 nightly cost of a bed was met through housing benefit, meaning the shelter was no longer financially viable.

Most shelters are funded through housing benefit, meaning that those who, for whatever reason, are not receiving the benefit cannot be given a bed.

They do, however, have to buy another jersey to get any benefit, meaning that this is one of capitalism's vaunted spend-money-to save-it kind of deals — and so not much of a deal at all.

A first look at final-stage trials failed to show a benefit, meaning the drug will not go before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration until 2006 at the earliest.

But that insurer limits benefits, meaning not everyone gets as much as they had been promised.

Many families would also suffer if Congress failed to extend emergency jobless benefits, meaning that 2.1 million Americans would abruptly stop receiving expected payments.

About 22,000 of those workers are eligible to retire with full benefits, meaning they have been with the company for at least 30 years or are at least age 65.

Davidson argues that a wage subsidy scheme, in which jobseekers take up a job but the government continues to pay their benefits, meaning employers only make up the difference between benefits and the minimum wage, would have been of more use.

Firstly, the results clearly shows the so-called "disincentive effect" of benefits, meaning that the unemployment exit probability is much lower for insured workers than for uninsured ones.