old-age assistance

Covered is unemployment insurance, disability payments, old-age assistance, government-provided health care, family allowances and the like.

We will all wind up getting old-age assistance if we live long enough.

An additional $147 from old-age assistance pays her rent and utilities, which leaves her almost nothing for clothes and entertainment.

Anyone who is eligible for welfare or old-age assistance is also eligible for Medicaid, which covers doctors' and some hospital services, as well as nursing-home care.

He added that this was particularly pressing in the case of "old folks" and promised that he would urge increases in old-age assistance.