welfare payments
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The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 conditioned the most important forms of direct welfare payments on employment or the search for employment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
In Germany, SPD chairwoman and Labor Minister Bärbel Bas has adopted more left-wing talking points about raising taxes for the rich and ringfencing welfare payments from budget cuts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
I mean, essentially, he told people on the streets, “You are not going to get your welfare payments directly. You’re going to have to engage in services if you want this money.”
From Slate ● May 30, 2025
That vote is due in June, when the government will try to pass a new law to make changes to welfare payments.
From BBC ● May 23, 2025
Smaller than expected revenues and rising welfare payments caused the budget deficit to climb to 7.1% of GDP in 1995.
From The 1996 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
