Welfare - Topics

Benefit exhaustion at month 26 creates a cliff for the long-term jobless Why work relief programs deliberately pay below the local wage Sanctioning jobseekers: what conditionality does to the quality of the next job Household composition rules for assistance: who counts as a dependent What separates a work relief program from an ordinary public works contract The stigma of showing up for a relief job in a small town Why work relief programs shrink the moment unemployment falls Auditing work relief: ghost workers and missing wages Where there is no unemployment benefit there is little reason to register as unemployed at all Means testing: the income and asset limits that decide eligibility Charitable and church based help versus statutory assistance Ethiopia's productive safety net and the shift from food aid to public works Universal versus means-tested benefits: which one survives a political backlash? Cash transfers or work relief: the evidence on which reaches the poorest One-off crisis grants from municipal welfare offices: what they cover Disability and early-retirement rolls quietly absorb people who would otherwise count as jobless The marriage penalty inside the earned income tax credit The WPA and the CCC: what New Deal work relief actually built Time limits on cash assistance and what happens at the cliff India's rural employment guarantee and what it did to local wages Emergency cash assistance for people who never qualified for unemployment insurance Asset tests: does owning a car disqualify a household? Retraining schemes can park people outside the jobless count for years without giving them work Why some countries cut marriage-based benefits for single parents Marriage penalties hidden in welfare and means-tested benefit rules Does social policy still treat men as disposable workers?