public assistance
Example Sentences
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Budget analysts have identified five categories that are driving up city spending: rental assistance, public assistance, the school system, city employee overtime and payments to the state-operated transit system.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
Meanwhile, low-income households that are eligible for public assistance with their home heating bills may not get that help until late December — after cold-weather demand begins.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 10, 2025
According to the National Association of Counties, 40 percent of home health aides live in low-income neighborhoods and rely on some form of public assistance; 30 percent of them are on Medicaid themselves.
From Salon • Jul. 29, 2025
Yet millions of their workers, including many employed full time, have to rely on public assistance, as the Government Accountability Office reported in 2020.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2025
He tells Mam at last that she can have the public assistance but if she gets a single penny from her husband she’s to drop all claims and give the money back to the Dispensary.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
