"stop benefits" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to indicate the end of the receipt of benefits by an individual or group. For example, "The company decided to stop benefits for employees who had been with the company for less than a year."
Several governments want to keep freedom of movement in the EU, but to stop benefits tourism.
The new minister also voted for the bedroom tax and against a plan to stop benefits being eroded by rising prices.
First is a four-year bar on benefits, including in-work benefits, being claimed by migrants from the rest of the EU, to stop "benefits tourism".
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday that without agreement, the US would continue to service its debts and stop benefits like Social Security payments instead.
"The changes will stop benefits for people on welfare who are playing by the rules, and cut programs that help low-wage working families.
To stop benefits becoming a way of life, would-be claimants will be forced to have a skills test, and then either matched with a job suited to their abilities or offered retraining.
At the same time, he said, you also "stop benefiting from things you did a long time ago".
THIS week Harriet Harman, the social-security secretary, floated the idea of an "affluence test" to stop benefit payments to the better-off.
Britain and Ireland stood alone in opening their markets to all, though even they adopted rules to stop benefit-seekers, and Britain created a registration scheme.
In order to stop benefit tourism, the British government fences these payments off behind a tough, UK-devised test called "right to reside", which is pretty fierce, but which does not apply to British nationals at all.
David Cording, the deputy chief executive of Crimestoppers, told the BBC that working closely with the government for the first time would help stop benefit fraud as it had in other areas of crime.
