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unemployment benefits

unemployment benefits is the plural of unemployment benefit.

Meaning of unemployment benefit

Noun

unemployment benefit (countable and uncountable, plural unemployment benefits)

  1. (in plural, often) Money paid by the government, special-purpose fund or similar to those who are unemployed and looking for work.
    • Claimants of unemployment benefits will see the biggest fall in the value of their payments in 50 years on Monday, anti-poverty campaigners have said, as Britons grapple with the worst cost of living crisis since 1972.2022 April 11, Miles Brignall, “Cost of living crisis: Value of UK unemployment benefits see biggest fall in 50 years”, in The Guardian

Questions about unemployment benefits

What is unemployment benefits the plural of?
Unemployment benefits is the plural of unemployment benefit.

Words near unemployment benefits in the dictionary

  1. unemployee
  2. unemployees
  3. unemploying
  4. unemployment
  5. unemployment benefit
  6. unemployment benefits
  7. unemployment insurance
  8. unemployment insurances
  9. unemployment rate
  10. unemployment rates
  11. unemployment trap

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