1. The unemployment trap exists when an unemployed person on benefit would be worse off in a low-paid job.

2. The refugees are badly off for blankets, and even worse off for food.

3. You must be badly off for books if you're reading that silly story.

4. Even now some universities are badly off for English teachers./be badly off.html

5. Still, they could be worse off.

6. My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you. Sylvia Plath 

7. No shareholder would now be worse off because of the tax measure.

8. If they are grafted on to existing vocational education-representing a change in name only-we will be worse off than when we started.

9. Pensioners will be worse off every week because the Government broke the link with earnings.

10. If you are separated, you can be worse off if you do not have a full pension in your own right.

11. Labour could not complain if the press pointed out that higher-rate taxpayers would be worse off under John Smith's budget plans.

12. Only if the benefit withdrawal rate exceeded 100 percent would the individual actually be worse off under such a proposal.

13. No consumer is worse off, because buying x units results in the same total outlay.

14. You could end up being worse off, with huge debts on top of being jobless.

15. Mr. Scott Hardly anyone will be worse off if they are on disability working allowance.