Synonyms for social welfare
so·cial wel·fare

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1. social welfare, welfare, public assistancenoun

   governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need

   "she lives on welfare"

   Synonyms:
   eudaemonia, public assistance, well-being, wellbeing, eudaimonia, upbeat, benefit, welfare

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1. Patricia Ho:

   It wasn't an application by the Social Welfare Department as it usually would be, police threw in a bunch of facts they obtained about the family in a very superficial manner.

2. Aly Verbaan:

   They're really living way below the breadline and I don't have the confidence that social welfare or anybody is going to come and save them.

3. Norval Morris:

   The prime function of the criminal law is to protect our persons and our property; these purposes are now engulfed in a mass of other distracting, inefficiently performed, legislative duties. When the criminal law invades the spheres of private morality and social welfare, it exceeds its proper limits at the cost of neglecting its primary tasks. This unwarranted extension is expensive, ineffective, and criminogenic.

4. Jose Manuel Barroso:

   We didn't want people in Portugal, in Greece to suffer. But we were close to the abyss, if we, in Europe, want to keep our social welfare model then we must stick with budget consolidation. We don't want Europe to turn into just a museum for tourists to visit.

5. Reynaldo Miranda:

   Without an identity card, you don't have any rights, you need a identity card for everything. Without it, I couldn't get the medicine and medical care I needed and any social welfare benefits.