Are you on any type of welfare?

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

Well?

[Lief 🗽]

Yes, I receive government grants and government-subsidized loans to attend law school.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Since my father passed, my family's received Social Security, & my mom's been on unemployment. I guess I kinda am right now due to financial aid for college & all that. Don't think that fits the official definition, though.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Yes, I receive government grants and government-subsidized loans to attend law school.

What year did you start law school?

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

None now, but I'll get Social Security disability insurance when I turn 18.

[TNF]

I am not.

[Fritz]

Social security disability

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

If student loans count, I will be.  I recently found out that full scholarships apparently don't cover housing...

[Torie]

If unfair tax breaks constitute "welfare," I am on a veritable portfolio of types of welfare, from pensions, to Prop 13, to self employed medical insurance deductions, to assorted and sundry Schedule A deductions, you name it. I am a true welfare queen in more than one sense of the word.

[dead0man]

Not in any normal sense of the word....tax break from home ownership?  I'm married and file jointly....is that one?  The wife did get some unemployment benefits a couple of years ago.  If I live long enough to hit retirement I may get some SS benefits if the sellfish baby boomers leave anything in the till.

[Indy Texas]

No. In fact, I've taken to driving my car through undeveloped forest on a path I cleared myself by hand to avoid utilizing roads that were paid for by government theft taxation. Should I find myself facing a medical emergency of some sort, I will not call the socialist county fire-EMS department. Rather, I will do what we did when this country was at its best and most self reliant - I will drink several shots of whiskey, put a piece of leather between my teeth and commence with amputating my own limbs with a hacksaw until my symptoms subside or I run out of limbs to cut off, whichever happens first.

[SteveRogers]

If student loans count, then yes. Although I'll have to pay them back, so they're not really a "handout" in the traditional sense.

[Redalgo]

No, unless special provisions in the tax code from back when I was still a university student count.

I am not eligible for any type of welfare despite having an income at 79% of the poverty level, and am not eligible for any form of assistance to offset the burden of the ACA mandate to buy private health insurance. If I were to shell out several hundreds of dollars, jump through enough hoops for the government getting formally evaluated, and exhaust all my savings in an effort to become eligible, they would probably still deny me SSI and SSDI since my conditions are insufficiently severe.

It is possible that I could qualify for Section 8 housing, though to be honest I have avoided the possibility because there are people who need it more, and because I have an upper-middle class family to turn to for some degree of support -- which is something a lot of people in bad situations are not so fortunate and privileged to have.

[King]

I was on unemployment insurance awhile ago.
I took out a small student loan which I already paid back.
I was a Medicaid kid in my early youth.

Also, my father served in Vietnam, and I'll assume I'll eventually inherit the home he bought with the GI Bill.

[morgieb]

Disability support pension.

[Tender Branson]

I'm currently on paid sick leave for a few weeks, because I had back-surgery last week and now I have a HUGE wound there that needs to be checked every 2 days and heal.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Disability support pension.

If it's not too much to ask, what's you disability?

[Franzl]

Sure, I attend university for 600€ a year.

(If we want to define "welfare" that way.)

[Ebowed]

No, and as an adult I've never been eligible due to nationality.  The lack of unemployment insurance or a background of means makes me a fairly frugal consumer and a loyal employee, not that I'd choose to not work if given the choice, but it would give me peace of mind to know that I wouldn't be completely screwed if I were injured or disabled.  I really have to get around to fixing my citizenship status.

[muon2]

I think too often that any government program gets lumped into welfare. That may play into current political debate but it doesn't really match the definition. Here's what Merriam Webster online says:

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The key is the connection to an individual in need. Employment by the government is not welfare since it is money in exchange for work. Government services available to the public at large would not be welfare either.

In higher ed an academic scholarship to a state university would not count, but a need-based scholarship would count.

Tax policy is designed to favor or disfavor certain types of economic activity, and are not really about money for those in need. An exception would be the earned income tax credit or disability-based exemptions which could meet the definition.

[Randy Bobandy]

My mother is on unemployment, and we're on SNAP. I also get a portion of my mother's ex-husband's Social Security disability.

[Torie]

I think too often that any government program gets lumped into welfare. That may play into current political debate but it doesn't really match the definition. Here's what Merriam Webster online says:

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The key is the connection to an individual in need. Employment by the government is not welfare since it is money in exchange for work. Government services available to the public at large would not be welfare either.

In higher ed an academic scholarship to a state university would not count, but a need-based scholarship would count.

Tax policy is designed to favor or disfavor certain types of economic activity, and are not really about money for those in need. An exception would be the earned income tax credit or disability-based exemptions which could meet the definition.

So muon2, I need not feel guilty about all the government largess I get because it isn't welfare eh? Folks of means can't be on welfare, even if in the form of those checks for cash I get from the feds for not growing corn, with about double the profit margin than if I do. Fantastico!

[AkSaber]

If going to a public university doesn't count, then no.

I may get some SS benefits if the sellfish baby boomers leave anything in the till.

I wouldn't count on it...

[Fed. Pac. Chairman Devin]

Just about everything imaginable. Free school meals/daycare/disability/medicaid ect ect.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I think too often that any government program gets lumped into welfare. That may play into current political debate but it doesn't really match the definition. Here's what Merriam Webster online says:

You must be logged in to read this quote.

The key is the connection to an individual in need. Employment by the government is not welfare since it is money in exchange for work. Government services available to the public at large would not be welfare either.

In higher ed an academic scholarship to a state university would not count, but a need-based scholarship would count.

Tax policy is designed to favor or disfavor certain types of economic activity, and are not really about money for those in need. An exception would be the earned income tax credit or disability-based exemptions which could meet the definition.

So muon2, I need not feel guilty about all the government largess I get because it isn't welfare eh? Folks of means can't be on welfare, even if in the form of those checks for cash I get from the feds for not growing corn, with about double the profit margin than if I do. Fantastico!

Doesn't stop you from being all other forms of, you know...