How to Use on welfare in a Sentence

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• And if the foreign freeloader’s on welfare, so much the better.
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2025
• Went on welfare and collected all kinds of checks and just sat there and waited for the government to take care of her.
  — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2022
• In addition to a high infant death rate, the complex had a large number of people on welfare.
  — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
• Growing up as the child of a single mother on welfare and living in a housing project, there was no piano in my house.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2022
• The Wileys, who sometimes relied on welfare, didn’t have much money.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• The Europeans smirked, nodded, and spent their money on welfare.
  — Dominic Green, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025
• As refugees in the 70s, the family went through a difficult time and started out on welfare.
  — Kaitlyn Schwanemann, NBC news, 12 May 2025
• And of all the country’s regions, Rotterdam cracks down on welfare fraud the hardest.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2023
• These children are more likely to end up incarcerated or on welfare.
  — Clarence C. Crawford, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2026
• The Netherlands takes a tough stance on welfare fraud, encouraged by populist right-wing politicians.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2023
• Especially at that time, people who were on welfare were being punished.
  — Coco Romack, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• Lawmakers imposed time limits and work requirements on welfare, and caseloads fell.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 22 July 2023
• Today, hardly anyone on welfare is required to pursue employment or an upward path in life.
  — Jake Laturner, National Review, 15 June 2022
• The demands from the various members of the fragile alliance could mean the government opens the taps on welfare spending.
  — Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 18 July 2024
• The president has responded by spending heavily on welfare ahead of the elections.
  — Ana Ionova, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2022
• This could indicate the government’s uneven spending on welfare schemes, as well as its urgency to keep a growing fiscal deficit in check.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 1 Feb. 2022
• At the same time, government ministers have been laying the ground for more public spending cuts including on welfare payments.
  — Emily Ashton, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2022
• People with mental health conditions are more likely to have worse-paying jobs, work part time or have to rely on welfare payments, the charity states.
  — Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
• Individuals on welfare and other benefit programs often need a push into the job world.
  — Michael Bernick, Mercury News, 7 June 2025
• More people in jobs means less spending on welfare and more revenue from additional taxpayers, also helping narrow the deficit.
  — Swati Pandey, Bloomberg.com, 27 Mar. 2022
• Black, who has two master’s degrees, worked with children on welfare and people in prison earlier in his career and recently opened his own private practice.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• He was deported, but Joe Biden invited him to come back to the US and resume his drug dealing and get back on welfare.
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 11 June 2025
• During the Great Depression, her father put New Deal posters in the window of their home and took in patients on welfare.
  — New York Times, 5 Feb. 2021
• For many in that circle, Birdsong’s predicament echoed that of Ballard, who had ended up on welfare after being fired from the Supremes.
  — Christopher Petkanas, New York Times, 30 June 2023
• Building a story around a white family using a curandero to fend off a grieving Mexican mother on welfare is a pretty bad look.
  — Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
• The idea that all those ills could be healed with a bipartisan vote on welfare reform or social security privatization was appealing to both men.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 21 July 2021
• For example, programs for unemployment aid and social assistance were unified into a single system to better help those on welfare find jobs or be retrained.
  — Christian Odendahl, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2017
• According to the indictment, Lina stole the identity of a Puerto Rican and has been living large on welfare ever since.
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
• But eight fewer days of work per year doesn’t exactly look like the doomsday scenario of everyone choosing to live out their remaining days on welfare, surfing, or playing video games on the taxpayer’s dime.
  — Oshan Jarow, Vox, 22 July 2024
• Among Democrats, meanwhile, party lawmakers grew increasingly fearful that Biden might agree to new work requirements for people on welfare.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 3 June 2023