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invalidity benefit in British Englishnoun(formerly, in the British National Insurance scheme) a weekly payment to a person who had been off work through illness for more than six months: replaced by incapacity benefit in 1995 Abbreviation: IVB Examples of 'invalidity benefit' in a sentenceinvalidity benefit They are opposed to any kind of sanctions to invalidity benefit claimants.Incapacity benefit, don't you know, replaced invalidity benefit in the last century.Those coming off invalidity benefit will be competing with the able-bodied and the recently employed.The real hero was his workshy pal, but he can't claim credit because he'll lose his invalidity benefit.Invalidity benefit went up from 700,000 to 2.6 million in the 1980s and 1990s as people were pushed out of the shipyards and coalfields.Now they struggle on the economic edges, driving minicabs and working in retail distribution centres or left to fester on invalidity benefits. |