invalidity benefit

Her husband, Frans, is disabled and receives invalidity benefit payments from the Belgian government after contracting peritonitis in 2006, a debilitating abdominal infection that left him in a coma.

One of the obsessions of the coalition now is to cut welfare payments in general and invalidity benefit in particular.

Yet, ironically, it was the Thatcher government that largely created the so-called dependency culture by deliberately encouraging employment exchanges to direct people towards invalidity benefit in order to massage the unemployment figures.