benefit cuts
Slashed social payments
Benefit cuts are reductions in government assistance programs—lower payment amounts, stricter eligibility requirements, or eliminated services.
The phrase appears most often in political debate, where opponents of spending reductions warn of benefit cuts to Social Security or benefit cuts affecting the disabled.
Those proposing the reductions typically prefer terms like "reforms" or "adjustments."
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- belt tighteningReducing expenditures deliberately
- welfareComfort and prosperity
- welfare stateGovernment-funded citizen support system
- social safety netPublic programs preventing destitution
reductions · hardship · cost of living · living standards · poverty · working poor · unemployed · job centre · disability · slashed · struggling · vouchers · foodbank · sanctions · claimants · pension · food stamps · allowance
- retirementretirement, retire, retirement age, retirees, retirement income
- austerityausterity measures, fiscal austerity, deficit reduction, belt tightening, fiscal discipline
- cost cuttingbudgeting, cost reduction, budget, expenses, expense tracking
- welfarewelfare, welfare reform, welfare system, public assistance, welfare office
- Government Reformbudget reform, fiscal reform, government reform, policy reform, regulatory reform
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
benefit, benefits, benefited, benefiting, beneficial, beneficiary, beneficiaries, beneficence, beneficent