welfare payment
noun [C] US GOVERNMENT, ECONOMICSDefinition
› an amount of money that is paid by the government to someone who is ill, poor, or has no job: She receives $620 a month in welfare payments.
(Definition of welfare payment noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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