passported
- 1Automatically granted to a person who already receives certain other qualifying benefits, without a separate eligibility test.
Like a backstage pass that lets you in everywhere once you already hold the main ticket.
Many council tax reductions are passported, granted the moment a household qualifies for universal credit.
The dental exemption is a passported entitlement, so claimants of qualifying benefits face no further assessment.
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A metaphor borrowed from travel: one benefit works as the passport that waves a claimant through to another. The word belongs to UK welfare vocabulary, where free school meals, for instance, follow from a parent's Income Support. It describes benefits and entitlements (a passported benefit) and does not grade. A benefit is passported or it is not, never more passported than another.
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Origin
Formed from "passport" and the suffix "-ed," the idea being that one benefit serves as a metaphorical "passport" to the other.