"work payment" is a valid phrase in written English.
It usually is used to refer to the monetary amount paid in exchange for services rendered. For example: "My work payment for the month was over $500."
A reduction in legal aid work payments was a key part of the reform package.
But to deliver them Mr Hunt wants to cut weekend work payments, rather than pay more to recruit extra doctors or to maintain top-up pay.
There is currently a basic element of £1,890, as well as a couple and lone parent element (£1,860), a 30-hour working week element, a disabled worker element (£2,530), a severely disabled worker element (£1,075) and a 50+ return-to-work payment at £1,300 for those working between 16 and 29 hours, and £1,935 for those working 30 hours or more.
Government proposals to consolidate existing benefits into a single out-of-work and in-work payment will be unveiled in a white paper on Thursday.
"I would particularly give a really strong warning to the Secretary of State: any attacks on unsocial hours, weekend working payments, would be strongly resisted," he said.
The government does not deny that in-work payments replacing tax credits will be lower for some new claimants, including those whose family circumstances change.
More importantly, the sharp cuts in tax credits and other in-work payments Osborne announced as part of his plans to save £12bn from the welfare bill are likely to cut families' incomes.
Mr Duncan Smith is setting up policies he says will make work more profitable than claiming unemployment, including a cap on out-of-work payments and creating a universal credit to replace several existing payments for those in low-paid work.
If one adult in a problem family moves off benefits and into continuous work, the payment will be £4,000.
