Essay On Welfare Assistance

Welfare Assistance is well known throughout the United States and has been around for many decades. The real question is, is welfare a permanent solution or a temporary fix to the massive widespread issue in today’s society? The welfare system in the United States performs a wide variety of functions to assist people who are in need of help. There are many different assistance programs, but the more dominate ones are cash, food, child care assistance, medical, housing, social security, education, etc. “Most welfare initiatives are means-tested and provide aid directly to low-income persons in the form of cash, food, housing, medical care, and so forth, with eligibility based on the recipient 's income” (Tanner). Welfare is a system formed by the government and the system takes money from hard working …show more content…
I am going to go over a few of these types of assistances and what they are for. Food assistance can be food banks, food stamps, and reduced/free lunch through schools. Cash assistance helps you when you have lost a job and is even a way to get child support. Child care assistance helps low income individuals to be able to afford to go to work by reducing the cost of daycare. An example for this would be a family working a minimum wage job(s) and instead of one of their incomes paying for the daycare they are only paying a small portion. With housing assistance it helps low income families by paying for a portion of their rent, so that they are not living on the streets. Medical assistance is helping those who cannot afford insurance, but is mostly meant for children. Welfare does offer medical for adults and is based on their income. They pay a low fixed monthly payment that they can afford. Welfare is used to basically donates the different taxes to supported programs that provide cash assistance or services to individuals and families who are eligible based off their income and