on welfare

Idioms  

1. see on relief.

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Example Sentences

The hope is that would unlock cash for the economy, despite big tax rises, big increases on welfare spending and the country's still whopping debts.

From BBC

State spending, particularly on welfare, is going up and up.

From BBC

But she also announced policies that could raise inflation, including lifting a cap on welfare payment for more than two children and an increase to the minimum wage.

From The Wall Street Journal

The chancellor is widely expected to raise taxes in her Budget on 26 November, after gloomy economic forecasts and a series of U-turns on welfare cuts made it harder for her to meet her own tax and spending rules.

From BBC

"Some of what I was feeding back - especially how difficult legislation on welfare was going to be to land - I thought I was doing that to be helpful but maybe it was a message people didn't want to hear."

From BBC