“benefit”

means money which has been awarded or which is required to be awarded or money which has been paid or which is required to be paid or the payment of money or a claim for the payment of money, as the context may require, to or in respect of a person or to or in respect of the dependants of a person, on the ground that such person was under the previous Act found to be suffering from pneumoconiosis or tuberculosis, or has under this Act been found to be suffering from a compensatable disease, but does not include money awarded under the previous Act or this Act to a person in the form of a special grant or in the form of assistance in connection with the training of any person;