benefit

• house benefit

• unemployment benefit

  The Government did not honour this commitment when unemployment benefit became taxable in July 1982.

• child benefit

  For a three-child family, child benefit has fallen below earnings by £12.40 a week or £645 a year.

• supplementary benefit

  Up to April 1988 this was known as supplementary pension and was the arm of the supplementary benefit system catering for older people.

• also benefit

  Freshwater fishkeepers as well as marinists can also benefit from:

• maximum benefit

  If the session is viewed as a dreaded ordeal, the learner will feel anxious and not gain maximum benefit.

• direct benefit

  The new system will also be of direct benefit to the Library's users.

• parent benefit

  One parent benefit , a weekly addition to child benefit for one parent families;; 696 thousand lone families were receiving one parent benefit in January 1990.

• likely to benefit

  This unit auto-senses the mains voltage, and adjusts accordingly, so is most likely to benefit international travellers.

• have the benefit

  Methylene blue is used when eggs are hatched artificially and do not have the benefit of parental care to keep them clean.

• amount of benefit

  The amount of benefit paid increased from 18 million pounds in 1983 to about 1,000 million pounds in 1989.

• state benefit

  A compromise agreement on a proposed reform of the state benefit system reached in August [see pp. 38401-02]led to a wave of protests culminating in strikes on Sept. 17.