welfare system
Government aid programs
A welfare system is a government program or network of programs providing financial assistance and social services to people in need—typically covering unemployment benefits, food assistance, housing support, and healthcare for low-income citizens.
The term often carries political connotations: conservatives may invoke it critically the bloated welfare system, while others defend it as essential social infrastructure.
She relied on the welfare system after losing her job.
- food stampsSubsidized grocery purchasing vouchers
- unemployment benefitsState aid for jobless workers
- housing vouchersGovernment rent payment assistance
- pension schemesOrganized retirement savings systems
- health insuranceProtection against medical costs
cash assistance · disincentives · public healthcare · survivor benefits · mental health services · unemployment insurance · joblessness · means testing · poverty line · disability assistance · social safety net · workers' compensation · sickness benefits · WIC · universal education · accident insurance · energy subsidies · handout
- systemsecosystems, ecosystem, biological systems, transportation network, communication systems
- welfareSNAP benefits, public assistance, food stamps, poor law, TANF
- public healthdisease prevention, immunization, disease control, health education, epidemiology
- US Governmentexecutive branch, legislative branch, judicial branch, Congress, House
- institutionsacademy, government, public hospitals, museum, public libraries
- ecological systemsmicrosystem, macrosystem
welfare systemphilanthropy
Generous giving for others
mutual aid · voluntary giving · religious charity · almsgiving · charitable foundations
welfare systemrugged individualism
Philosophy of personal independence
neoliberalism · workfare · meritocracy · free market · libertarianism
welfare systemausterity
Enforced economic stringency
small government · limited government · deregulation · privatization · tax cuts