pay benefit

collocation in English

meaningsofpayandbenefit

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pay
noun[U]
uk
/peɪ/us
/peɪ/
the money you receive for doing ...
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benefit
noun
uk
/ˈben.ɪ.fɪt/us
/ˈben.ə.fɪt/
a helpful or good effect, or something intended ...
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(Definition ofpayandbenefitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpay benefit

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Lower total retirement benefits are the result of finalpaybenefitformulas.
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It is no more discriminatory against the poor than saying that the state will notpaybenefitto people who are already high earners.
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The dilemma is whether topaybenefitfor actual rent or make a standard payment of a rent allowance.
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The fact is that local authorities already have not only that right but a duty not topaybenefitif fraud is considered.
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I have no power topaybenefitexcept in accordance with the decisions of the statutory authorities.
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The premiums previously paid for two, three, or four years would earn interest all the time before they were called upon topaybenefit.
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Local authorities will still have the discretion topaybenefitabove the average cost of shared accommodation, especially where there are examples of exceptional hardship.
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They provide a range of services designed to help unemployed people back to work, and topaybenefitto those who are entitled to it.
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The effect would be topaybenefitto people with incomes in excess of £14,000 a year.
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However, where the doubt is about the basic jobseeking conditions, we cannot simplypaybenefitautomatically before a decision is reached.
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The subscriptions which lapse in this way enable the fund topaybenefitin excess of the subscriptions in other cases as above-mentioned.
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It makes sense of national insurance contributions and of how wepaybenefitand deal with people in extreme poverty.
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He later explained that it was impossible topaybenefitwithout the statutory medical certificate.
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That, of course, assumes that it would not be right topaybenefitto anyone whose mobility could not be improved.
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The broader concept is that we shouldpaybenefitto workers according to their disablement.
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Topaybenefitto a woman staying at home looking after her children is not a work incentive.
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Do they wish us to give advice and support to the long-term unemployed, or just leave them alone andpaybenefit?
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There are therefore no real grounds for continuing topaybenefitfor children in care.
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I have made the point that we are going to make it possible for local authorities topaybenefitdirectly to the landlord.
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