Wiktionary
benefit club
n. A mutual aid organization, with subscribers entitled to benefit payments in case of an accident or an illness.
Usage examples of "benefit club".
When I first considered putting pen to paper in this matter of my life, I thought I must begin with the great cases of my comparative youth, the 'Penge Bungalow Murder', where I gained an acquittal alone and without a leader, or the 'Great Brighton Benefit Club Forgery', which I contrived to win by reason of my exhaustive study of typewriters.