public assistance

noun

: government aid to needy, aged, or disabled persons and to dependent children

Examples of public assistance in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As more people rely on public assistance, Meyer said state lawmakers should use the state budget to invest in things like public transportation and affordable housing and childcare. —Mayah Nachman, Baltimore Sun, 15 June 2026

By 1972, roughly one in eight New Yorkers was receiving some form of public assistance, up threefold from a decade earlier. —Kevin Lozano, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026

Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, is a public assistance program for low-income older adults and people with disabilities under age 65. —Katie Savin, Fortune, 2 June 2026

Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, is a public assistance program for low-income older adults and people with disabilities under age 65. —Callie Freitag, The Conversation, 1 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1884, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for public assistance

• coexistence
• nonexistence
• consistence
• desistance
• existence
• insistence
• persistence
• resistance
• subsistence
• distance
• magnetoresistance