School leaver, when claiming benefit, gets not much money (10)
I believe the answer is:
adolescent
'school leaver' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'when claiming benefit gets not much money' is the wordplay.
'when' becomes 'as' (eg 'when I walked' means 'as I walked').
'claiming' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'benefit' becomes 'dole' (informal term for a state benefits).
'gets' says to put letters next to each other.
'not much money' becomes 'cent' (I've seen this in another clue).
'as' enclosing 'dole' is 'adoles'.
'adoles'+'cent'='ADOLESCENT'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for adolescent that I've seen before include "Immature" , "Teenage" , "One growing" , "Youngster" , "Teenager" .)