welfare payments

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In Germany, SPD chairwoman and Labor Minister Bärbel Bas has adopted more left-wing talking points about raising taxes for the rich and ringfencing welfare payments from budget cuts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

In Autazes, a town of about 50,000 people, most families depend on government jobs or welfare payments, Mayor José Thomé Neto said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

The state spends £212bn per year on illness-related inactivity, or nearly 70% of income tax, through lost output, increased welfare payments and additional burdens on the NHS.

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025

I mean, essentially, he told people on the streets, “You are not going to get your welfare payments directly. You’re going to have to engage in services if you want this money.”

From Slate • May 30, 2025

Smaller than expected revenues and rising welfare payments caused the budget deficit to climb to 7.1% of GDP in 1995.

From The 1996 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency