The rightful owner of a stolen number does not get the benefits accrued under its false use.

Cost-benefit analysis compares the costs of implementing a program to the benefits accrued to stakeholders.

As a transition measure, benefits accrued before 2004 are based on the salary on 1 January 2004.

But whatever economic benefit accrued from unity was smashed by one of the Government's first decisions - to sympathize with Iraq in the Gulf War.

"The wealthy received the greatest tax-cut benefit between those years, with decreasing benefits accrued to taxpayers with lower income levels," the authors wrote.

Socio-economic benefits accrued through improved decision-making, e.g., better QPF can help reservoir operators balance flood control against competing needs for water resources.

His father had seen that benefits also accrued from a social system more highly structured than Cimmeria's, but he was blind to those.

However, if and when the scheme retirement age does rise it can't affect benefits accrued to date.

For you, existing benefits accrued to date will be protected - but it may be that benefits accrued after any reforms would carry a higher retirement age.

What hugely expensive benefits, accrued from previous service, were they asking people to give up?