Lexic.us

Definition of Supplementary benefit

1. Noun. Benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by law.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Supplementary Benefit

Literary usage of Supplementary benefit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Labour Market Policies in Slovenia by OECD Staff, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope (1997)
"The supplementary benefit is up to 52 per cent of the guaranteed income for each adult in a household, plus between 29 and 42 per cent for each child, ..."

2. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"... 1956, as amended by the Family Allowances and National Insurance Act. 1961, and the National Insurance Act, 1963, a supplementary benefit of 65!. a week ..."

3. Social Security: Promise and Reality by Rita Ricardo-Campbell (1977)
"However, note that a wife who is entitled to a retirement benefit based on her own covered earnings "is entitled to a supplementary benefit only when her ..."

4. Maternity Benefit Systems in Certain Foreign Countries by Henry John Harris (1919)
"What might be regarded as a supplementary benefit is the provision of section 10 (4) b of the act of 1911, under which no account will be taken of arrears ..."

5. Selected Articles on Social Insurance by Julia Emily Johnsen (1922)
"In New Zealand only is she excluded from the aid; in Great Britain she is not allowed to receive the supplementary benefit which is granted to married women ..."

6. Lone-Parent Families: The Economic Challenge by OECD Staff, OCDE (1990)
"Estimates for 1983 put 61 per cent of both these categories below a poverty line defined as 140 per cent of ordinary supplementary benefit assistance levels ..."

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