welfare to work
(also welfare-to-work) noun [U] GOVERNMENTDefinition
› in the UK, a government policy that helps unemployed people who are receiving money from the government to get jobs: For some, welfare-to-work has indeed worked. The new clubs will be staffed in part by 50,000 young people trained under the welfare-to-work programme.
(Definition of welfare to work noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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