0 money that the government pays to unemployed people who are looking for a job --
1 money that the government pays regularly to unemployed people who are looking for a job. The term "unemployment benefit" was officially replaced in the UK by "Jobseeker's Allowance" in 1996: --
A Labour Department report said people collecting unemployment benefits rose to the highest level in 18 months.
claim/receive unemployment benefit The number of people claiming unemployment benefit fell last week by 1,500 to 2.18 million.
Figures showed that 50,000 people in the region were on unemployment benefit.
Some people consider that generous unemployment benefits have harmed the UK economy.
That is not an enormous figure to produce a very great change in unemployment benefit.
Part of unemployment benefit should be used for this purpose.
They also ignore externalised costs such as public aid and unemployment benefit.
Unemployment benefit duration in years.
Unemployment benefit, housing allowance and social assistance are more selective income transfers which are of more crucial importance for the worse off than for the well off.
Education and housing are, not surprisingly, excluded and old age pensioners and other areas of social insurance (with the exception of unemployment benefit) are not examined.
Turning to unemployment benefits, there are two variously generous unemployment benefit systems, for which eligibility is governed by previous employment and membership in an unemployment benefit society.
Other examples are the unemployment benefit/training allowance where the maximum benefit was not adjusted to rising wages between 1993 and 1998.
