Public assistance programs are based on a set of values that presume people suffer from a lack of medical care, food, housing, and income because they do not live as they should. Minimal benefits for the extremly needy are provided by public assistance programs. Welfare programs based on a social assistance model contain eligibility criteria, or in other words rules for recieving benifits. These rules are designed to encourage the able-bodied to work, families to take responsibility for the care of the youth, eldery, and disabled, and individuals to prepare for their own future. This criteria determines who can apply for benefits, for example; widows, the sick, the disabled, or the aged, and what conditions these individuals must meet to
