welfare recipient

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• Welfare queen — A welfare queen is a pejorative neologism used to describe women who are presumed to collect welfare checks, or excess amounts, through fraud or manipulation. Sensational reporting on (what would become known as) welfare queens began during the… …   Wikipedia

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• Welfare reform — is a movement for policy change in countries with a state administered social welfare systems. Welfare reform is a movement to change a government s social welfare policy with aims at reducing recipient dependence on the government. Members of… …   Wikipedia

• Welfare fraud — refers to various intentional misuses of state welfare systems by withholding information or giving false or inaccurate information. This may be done in small, uncoordinated efforts, or in larger, organized criminal rings. Some common types of… …   Wikipedia

• recipient — re‧cip‧i‧ent [rɪˈsɪpiənt] noun [countable] formal someone who receives something: • The international money orders can be cashed by the recipient at any Amex travel office. • The scheme is placing more than 300 welfare recipients a year in jobs.… …   Financial and business terms

• welfare — noun 1 good health and happiness ADJECTIVE ▪ animal, child, community, family, human, personal ▪ people concerned about child welfare ▪ gen …   Collocations dictionary

• recipient — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ largest ▪ main, major ▪ intended ▪ She was not the intended recipient of the reward. ▪ ultimate …   Collocations dictionary

• welfare Cadillac — noun The case of a person or group receiving public benefits, although the benefits are not actually needed by the recipient or are obtained by fraud …   Wiktionary

• welfare-jockey — n American a recipient of state subsidies, unem ployment pay, etc. A pejorative term employed by the right wing comic writer P. J. O Rourke, among others …   Contemporary slang

• National Welfare Rights Organization — The National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) was an American activist organization that fought for the welfare rights of people, especially women and children. The organization had four goals: adequate income, dignity, justice, and democratic… …   Wikipedia

• social welfare —    ‘Social welfare’ is sometimes a synonym for welfare state, but here it is taken to refer to ideas about what the objectives of a welfare state are and by what mechanisms and processes they might best be achieved.    The principle of less… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture