Welfare

Welfare may refer to:

* Well-being, quality of lifestyle
** Animal welfare, the quality of life of animals, and concerns thereabout
* "Welfare", a film directed by Frederick Wiseman

In economics:

* Social welfare provision, government programs that seek to provide a minimum level of income, service or other support for disadvantaged peoples
* Welfare (financial aid), financial assistance paid by taxpayers to people who are unable to support themselves, "cf." Workfare, an alternative model requiring recipients to participate in work-rehabilitation programs,
** Corporate welfare, a pejorative describing a government's bestowal of money grants, tax breaks, or other special favorable treatment on corporations
* Welfare state, in which the state assumes primary responsibility for the welfare of its citizens beyond a minimum level
* Welfare economics, determines allocative efficiency and the income distribution within an economy; see also, Social welfare function
*Social security, social welfare service concerned with social protection

ee also

*Administration of federal assistance in the United States
*Affordable housing
*Canada Pension Plan
*Corporate welfare
*Disability pension
*Folkhemmet
*Government spending
*Guaranteed minimum income
*Income Support
*National Health Service
*Pauper's oath
*Social insurance
*Social safety net
*Social security
*Social work, a profession intrinsically involved in the provision of welfare
*Subsidized housing
*Welfare state