welfare benefit
noun [C, usually plural] UK ECONOMICS, GOVERNMENTDefinition
› money paid by the government to people who are ill, poor, or have no job: If a parent works, the family is not eligible for welfare benefits.
(Definition of welfare benefit noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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