parish relief
Church-funded aid
Parish relief was financial or material assistance provided to the poor by local church parishes, particularly in England before the modern welfare state.
Under the Poor Laws from the 16th through 19th centuries, each parish was responsible for its own destitute residents: Many families depended on parish relief to survive the winter.
The system was eventually replaced by centralized government welfare programs.
- poor lawLegislation aiding the destitute
- Christian charityReligiously motivated generosity
- workhousesLabor-based relief institutions
- poor houseInstitution for the destitute
- povertySevere lack of resources
pauperism · charity · subsistence · deserving poor · vestry · church warden · tithes · vagrancy laws · destitution · unemployment · settlement · social welfare · almsgiving · community support · economic hardship · guardians · rates · beggar
- welfarewelfare, welfare reform, welfare system, SNAP benefits, public assistance
- welfare historypoor laws, poorhouse, poorhouses, workhouse, workhouses
- Poor Lawworkhouse, workhouses, poorhouse, poorhouses, guardians
- philanthropydonations, charity work, donate, give, giving
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- charitiesRed Cross, food bank, food banks, homeless shelter, homeless shelters
parish reliefstate welfare
Government-provided social support
federal assistance · national insurance · social security · public assistance · workhouse
parish reliefself-reliance
Depending on oneself alone
financial independence · self-sufficiency · earned income · economic autonomy · independent means