In Korea, for example, anyone aged 18-65 used to be ineligible for public assistance.
She was sixty-seven, and she had battled schizophrenia for decades, surviving on public assistance.
Sprint's 18th-and- Vine call center employs 48 operators, half of whom were on public assistance.
To enable public assistance agencies to verify eligibility for and amount of income-based benefits.
What's outraged people are outsized bonuses at firms that so recently required massive public assistance.
She was on public assistance and was a founder of the local chapter of the Welfare Rights System.
The large sub-categories are Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and various forms of public assistance (food stamps, housing support, etc.).
One morning late last year, the lobby was packed with people applying for food, housing and other public assistance.
With four children, Anzor and Zubeidat qualified for food stamps and were on and off public assistance benefits for years.
This would not cost much because only about 12 million Americans arguably cannot afford health insurance without some public assistance.
Well, on one side you had 29 nations, led by the United States with the very public assistance of Mexico.
To verify, using VA benefit information, an applicant's eligibility for public assistance.
Former inmates with jobs also have less need for public assistance and contribute to society, in the form of taxes and purchasing power.
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Making matters worse, the cuts came as unemployment was rising, causing more people to lose private insurance and forcing them to shift to public assistance.
But the notion that there are 46 million Americans who can't get the health care they need for lack of money or public assistance is a myth.
In the past, Americans relied even more on public assistance.
"We are making available all categories of public assistance funding for local governments and non-profit organizations to rebuild, restore and reconstruct public facilities, including schools and infrastructure, " Clinton said.
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The trust funds do not provide basic support but do provide supplemental help by paying for comforts and luxuries that could not be paid for by public assistance funds.
The middle fifth of the population only gets 16% of its income from retirement funds and 0.5% from public assistance, and the richest fifth only 4% and 0.1%, respectively.
In 1996, she led opposition to a provision in President Bill Clinton's welfare law that made legal immigrants who were not citizens ineligible for food stamps and other public assistance.
As Alma mentioned, high school dropouts are more likely to be teen parents, more likely to commit crime, more likely to rely on public assistance, more likely to lead shattered lives.
He said the search would be limited to daylight hours and would be assisted by dog teams on Thursday and that the force was not asking for any more public assistance at this stage.
Alternatively, states could serve the poor by using the program to provide public assistance through Medicaid that would help the poor to pay for the private health insurance of their choice in the marketplace.
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An unscientific poll of soup-kitchen clients in Glen Burnie suggests that the able-bodied jobless are getting by on a mixture of public assistance and private charity, but still have plenty of incentive to find work.
The new welfare law requires states to move at least 20 percent of people receiving public assistance into jobs -- public or private -- by the end of this year, but is silent on what people should be paid.
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As a public good, human capital accumulation reduces criminality, medical care costs, and dependence on public assistance, while producing favorable citizenship qualities such as volunteering, community involvement, charitable donations, and likelihood to vote and perform public service.
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Another Aspen study found that those who were on welfare before becoming entrepreneurs were able to generate enough income on their own that, on average, the amount of public assistance that these entrepreneurs accepted declined by 61 percent between 1988 and 1992.
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At that bottom end of the scale, retired and unemployed Americans rely far more on safety nets: the lowest-earning fifth of the population gets 48% of its yearly income from retirement funds like Social Security, and 9% from public assistance programs like food stamps.
You know, until lawmakers and policy makers and corporations acknowledge that it is not good economic policy as well as social policy to pay wages that force workers to turn to public assistance to support themselves, which means that that impacts taxpayers and it is not good economic policy as well as social policy...
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