How to Use child benefit in a Sentence

child benefit

noun
  • Parents can save and invest the child benefit.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Add in child benefit for one child, and you are paid over £27,000 – closer to the national average wage.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Poland also runs a Family 800+ program, a universal child benefit that was increased to 800 zloty ($219) in January 2024.
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Moth is the chair of the Department for Social Justice for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales and regularly speaks out on social issues including the cost-of-living crisis and two-child benefit cap.
    — Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
  • More details of the government’s spending and tax plans are due to be unveiled Wednesday, in which Chancellor Rachel Reeves, the UK’s finance minister, is expected to address the two-child benefit cap, a policy the government has oscillated between keeping and scrapping for the past year.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
  • In total, the UK spent £145 billion on benefits for working-age people and children – including incapacity and disability benefits (£77 billion); housing benefit (£37 billion); and child benefit (£13 billion).
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 4 Oct. 2026

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