花燈集英語字典

invalidity benefit

I 开头单词

基本解释

  • 病殘津貼

英汉例句

    權威例句

  • Invalidity Benefit, supposedly for invalids, had been paid to thousands of early retirees on the nod of friendly local doctors.
    ECONOMIST: Welfare reform
  • So in 1995 the Tories replaced Invalidity Benefit with Incapacity Benefit, which required claimants to satisfy an objective medical test.
    ECONOMIST: Welfare reform
  • Incapacity benefit, paid to people too ill to work, was brought in to replace the widely abused invalidity benefit, whose recipients turned out to have included shot-putters and mountaineers.
    ECONOMIST: Welfare reform

英英字典

    柯林斯英英字典

  • (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 1995 ( abbr: IVB)