unemployment benefit

English

Noun

unemployment benefit (countable and uncountable, plural unemployment benefits)

1. (often in the plural) Money paid by the government, special-purpose fund or similar to those who are unemployed and looking for work.
   • 2022 April 11, Miles Brignall, “Cost of living crisis: Value of UK unemployment benefits see biggest fall in 50 years”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Claimants of unemployment benefits will see the biggest fall in the value of their payments in 50 years on Monday, anti-poverty campaigners have said, as Britons grapple with the worst cost of living crisis since 1972.

Translations

money paid to the unemployed

• Bulgarian: помощ за безработица f (pomošt za bezrabotica)
• Czech: podpora v nezaměstnanosti f
• Dutch: werkloosheidsuitkering (nl) f
• Finnish: työttömyysturva (fi), työttömyyskorvaus (fi), työttömyysetuus
• French: allocation chômage (fr) f
• German: Arbeitslosengeld (de) n, Stempelgeld (de) n (colloquial), Stütze (de) f (colloquial)
• Greek: επίδομα ανεργίας n (epídoma anergías)
• Gujarati: બેરોજગારી ભથ્થું (berojgārī bhaththũ)
• Irish: sochar dífhostaíochta m
• Maori: penihana koremahi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arbeidsledighetstrygd m or f

• Polish: zasiłek dla bezrobotnych m
• Russian: посо́бие по безрабо́тице (posóbije po bezrabótice)
• Scottish Gaelic: sochair cion-cosnaidh f
• Swedish: arbetslöshetsersättning (sv) c

See also

• dole

Further reading

• unemployment benefits on Wikipedia.Wikipedia