Health Insurance and pension

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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At a toy factory

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A: What are the working conditions like here? Do you get benefits?

B: Yes. We get lots of benefits.

A: Sick pay and health Insurance and pension?

B: Yes, all of these things.

A: And overtime; can you do overtime and get time and a half?

B: Yes. We can do overtime and get time and a half, and it looks as if I’ll have to do some overtime today.

A: Why is that?

B: Because you keep talking to me and interrupting my work.
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… health Insurance and pension ← original text

Which is grammatically correct:

-and pension

-and a pension

-and the pension

Thank you

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He says a pension, and I think that’s correct.

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Thank you so much, NearlyNapping :rose:

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I think it is ‘the pension’ especially when the grant of a pension is a life-long benefit. But I wonder why the speaker does not use the definite article with Sick Pay and Health Insurance which are also permanent in nature.

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Thank you so much, Anglophile :rose:

Online audio to text result:

Sick pay and health insurances and a pension.

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I don’t see any reason to use a definite article in this sentence. There are times when a definite article is called for, but I don’t think this is one of them.

An article for “sick pay” or “health insurance” doesn’t work at all. Although “a health insurance plan” works.

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