Financial or other services provided by the government, not paid for by recipients

Supposed to keep people away from having anything bad happen to them

* Largely designed for poor people that were going to fall through the cracks

* One of the first social service programs

Cases where wage earner is gone: Government would provide money so bad things didn't happen to children

Some way of determining who's poor enough to get welfare and who's not

i.e. FAFSA

Cash or cash substitutes

i.e.- food stamps, meals-onwheels, rent subsidies

Represent a transfer of hard benefits frm one pop. group to another

(transfer done ny government)

*Has to be done out of market place

Housing based on income

* programs called: Income Maintenance

(TANF)

(pay less than fair market)

a. Specialized housing

b. Low income (generally means tested)

(NOT WELFARE)

a. designed to help low income people buy own house

b. mortgage assistance where govenment guarentees loan (market related to income) 

federally funded program designed to help eligible low-income people meet the high costs of heating homes

*Depend on federal funding levels/how many people live with you/total houshold income/primary fuel used to heat home

Formula funding

- Have to have (x) and will get paid 50% if (they) follow the rules

(grant/contract (Public) )

* Majority non-forprofit agencies

-Catholic Charities

Habitat for Humanity

-Salvation Army

-Independent Living Centers

-Neighborhood Centers (food pantries, etc)

Renual House

Red Cross

Charity

-Fundraising

- etc.

Provide Jobs

CHARITY

-public

- special services

-minumum resources

-individual

-voluntary

-welfare of the poor

-social welfare

CITIZEN RIGHT

-universal services

-optimal social environments

-social reform

-private

-welfare state

-social development

Welfare should be there to ensure that people can develop as fully as they ought to

-so that welfare is proactive

-preventative services (promote both working spouces/educational/social)

Fed. gov't. says "here's money & spend it on welfare, but you need to keep using the same amount as before on welfare

* Money must stay in welfare system!

* Can roll over or make prorgrams with it

(Created by Social Security Act of 1935)

Fed. social insurance program that provides benefits to qualified retirees, their dependents, surviviors, and disabled workers

England -Barnett

- Students reported "these people" are like any other person, they just didn't have opportunities

William Booth trained people to collect data in systematic ways of houses

(Surveyed whole city in London)

*Suggested to people that poor was a big thing

"How the other half lives"

-Compelling pictures of childen off streets

(ENGLAND)

A body established to administer poor relief after the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834

(UNITED STATES)

Roosevelt created our national security system

-provided mechanisms for OASDHI

Layed ground work for British Social Security System

-developed comprehensive system

-all part of one thing

Economy where modal occupation is in the service

-childcare

-healthcare

-financial services

(techonology/industry/services expanding)

--> replaced humans with smart technology

--> loss of unskilled labor jobs

-More technicalization (more needs & services)

-geographical isn't that important (communication/transpertation)

-Changing in way of socialization and communication

Federalism: AFDC -> TANF (giving state more & more power)

"competition to the bottom"