Public welfare

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ECS-001523",
  "term": "Public welfare",
  "field": "Economic statistics",
  "definition": "Assistance to needy persons contingent upon their need. Excludes pensions to former employees and other benefits not contingent on need.\n\nExpenditures under this heading include:\n\n• Cash assistance paid directly to needy persons under the categorical programs Old Age Assistance, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and under any other welfare programs.\n\n• Vendor payments made directly to private purveyors for medical care, burials, and other commodities and services provided under welfare programs.\n\n• Provision and operation by the government of welfare institutions.\n\nOther public welfare includes payments to other governments for welfare purposes, amounts for administration, support of private welfare agencies, and other public welfare services. Health and hospital services provided directly by the government through its own hospitals and health agencies, and any payments to other governments for such purposes are classed under those functional headings rather than here.",
  "subject": "Governments",
  "see_also": [
    "Assistance and subsidies",
    "Cash assistance",
    "Categorical assistance programs",
    "Functions",
    "Hospitals",
    "Old-age assistance",
    "Social services and income maintenance",
    "Statistics about Governments",
    "Veteran's services"
  ],
  "references": [
    "U.S. Census Bureau Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/economic-statistics/public-welfare/"
}