a payment of money by the government to people who are ill, unemployed, poor or who have children
Your benefit payments will stop if you get a job.
I was told that in order to get benefit payments I would have to answer some questions.
Examples of 'benefit payment' in a sentence
benefit payment
Today only about 300,000 people are receiving benefit payments through universal credit and the system will not be fully operational until 2022 at the earliest.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
They resolve issues such as missed benefit payments and help people to find work.
The Sun (2015)
It also suggests that the government would make further savings in benefit payments as obese people became fit enough to return to work.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Work is part of their DNA - a more generous benefit payment will not stop them returning to work as soon as they can.