national assistance

British

noun

Now replaced by: income support. (in Britain) formerly a weekly allowance paid to certain people by the state to bring their incomes up to minimum levels established by law

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This is a sign perhaps that national assistance is now beginning to arrive.

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2023

She expressed gratitude for the national assistance, saying the state could use all the help it could get.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2020

Patrick later returned to London and drew national assistance while living in an attic room in his brother’s house.

From The Guardian • Sep. 30, 2014

Romania has no formal national assistance program for orphans after they leave state institutions.

From Time • Mar. 15, 2013

For long we had no national assistance in our purely commercial seafaring.

From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)

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