The phrase "give pensions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the provision of retirement benefits or financial support to individuals, typically by an employer or government.
Example: "The company has decided to give pensions to all employees who have worked there for over ten years."
Alternatives: "provide pensions" or "offer pensions."
We shall not remember the moment when Gertrude Farr went to the local post office in 1916 and was told: 'We don't give pensions to the widows of cowards.' She was left destitute, with a three-year-old and a four-month-old to feed.
After hostilities broke out on the frontier between the Americans and the native tribes, culminating in the Battle of Tippecanoe in November 1811, Jennings successfully promoted passage of a bill to grant compensation to veterans of the battle and to give pensions for five years to the widows and orphans of those who were killed.
Dozens of states give pension and health benefits far more generous than in the private sector.
That, in theory, will give pension fund trustees and trade unions more power to air any protests.
But in recent weeks, hundreds of people have taken to the streets to protest the transit union's refusal to give pension concessions.
Later this summer, for example, the European Commission is likely to give pension funds in member countries the green light to make cross-border investments.
The steep rise in assets should give pension savers some comfort that commitments to a guaranteed retirement income will be honoured, but experts pointed out that the global asset/liability ratio is still well down from its 1998 level.
He founded the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture (1648) and gave pensions to several men of letters.
He says: "Certainly the tax relief on pension contributions has always given pensions the edge over Isas.
All of this is against a reality in which the families of killed soldiers or police are given pensions of only a hundred dollars a month".
Yet the kid-glove treatment given pensions caused murmurs among airline analysts and government officials, who knew they could yield the airline billions in savings.
