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For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.
Kim Campbell

Meaning of "social assistance" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE

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Social assistance is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SOCIAL ASSISTANCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

social assistance

Welfare

Welfare is the provision of a minimal level of well-being and social support for all citizens, sometimes referred to as public aid. In most developed countries welfare is largely provided by the government, and to a lesser extent, charities, informal social groups, religious groups, and inter-governmental organizations. The welfare state expands on this concept to include services such as universal healthcare and unemployment insurance.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOCIAL ASSISTANCE

social accounting
social administration
Social and Liberal Democratic Party
Social and Liberal Democrats
social anthropologist
social anthropology
social benefits
social capital
Social Chapter
Social Charter
social circle
social climber
social climbing
social club
social column
social compact
social conscience
social contract

WORDS THAT END LIKE SOCIAL ASSISTANCE

acceptance
acquaintance
advance
assistance
capacitance
circumstance
Constance
court of first instance
distance
for instance
importance
inheritance
instance
long-distance
reluctance
resistance
stance
substance
the distance
the Resistance
walking distance

Synonyms and antonyms of social assistance in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «social assistance» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE

Find out the translation of social assistance to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of social assistance from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «social assistance» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

社会救助
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

asistencia social
570 millions of speakers

English

social assistance
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सामाजिक सहायता
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

المساعدة الاجتماعية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

социальная помощь
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

assistência social
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সামাজিক সহায়তা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

l´aide sociale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bantuan sosial
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sozialhilfe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

社会扶助
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

사회 복지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bantuan sosial
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trợ cấp xã hội
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சமூக உதவி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सामाजिक सहाय्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sosyal Hizmetler
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

assistenza sociale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pomoc społeczna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

соціальна допомога
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

asistență socială
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κοινωνικής πρόνοιας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

maatskaplike bystand
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

socialbidrag
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sosialhjelp
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of social assistance

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SOCIAL ASSISTANCE»

The term «social assistance» is regularly used and occupies the 56.385 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SOCIAL ASSISTANCE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about social assistance

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QUOTES WITH «SOCIAL ASSISTANCE»

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Kim Campbell
For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOCIAL ASSISTANCE»

Discover the use of social assistance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to social assistance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Patchworks of Purpose: The Development of Provincial Social ...
Patchworks of Purpose is an important book for students of social assistance and social policy as well as for scholars interested in Canadian public policy, Canadian federalism, and Canadian politics in general.
Gerard William Boychuk, 1998
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The Battle against Exclusion Social Assistance in Australia, ...
This book examines the performance of social assistance policies in four countries with similar per capita incomes: Australia, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
OECD, 1998
3
Social Assistance Dynamics in Europe: National and Local ...
Describing social assistance 'careers' in different national and urban contexts, it documents the strong interplay between personal biographies and policy patterns - a particularly useful perspective which complements the more structural, ...
Chiara Saraceno, 2002
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Social Assistance in the New EU Member States: Strengthening ...
Given the limited budgets for social assistance, ensuring that resources are spent well, reach those who need them, and optimize welfare gains and labor market outcomes. This also requires attention to the balance between spending on ...
Dena Ringold, Leszek Kasek, 2007
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The Battle against Exclusion Social Assistance in Belgium, ...
Table 4.1 Setting of benefit levels Belgium Czech Republic Netherlands Norway Setting of basic social assistance Central government Central government Central government (but some limited control over additional allowances) Local ...
OECD, 1998
6
Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives: Work, Social ...
Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives looks at the issue from the perspective of those most affected, revealing the difficulties young people encounter with the "support system.
Karen R. Foster, Dale C. Spencer, 2012
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The Battle against Exclusion Social Assistance in Canada and ...
Social Assistance in Canada and Switzerland OECD. 42 supports. Other groups where support is expected to be for a more extended period include those who are undertaking long-term education or training with the objective of reintegration  ...
OECD, 1999
8
Social Assistance in Albania: Decentralization and Targeted ...
The results reported here have five key policy implications: • Social assistance in Albania is well-targeted to the poor compared to the situation in other developing countries. • Local authorities appear to have access to certain kinds of ...
Harold Alderman, 1998
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The Battle Against Exclusion: Social Assistance in Belgium, ...
Box 2.1 Inflow and outflow of Dutch social assistance recipients The Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment is undertaking a research project on flows in and out of specific Dutch benefit programmes. The data concern the situation ...
‎1998
10
Social Transfers and Social Assistance: An Empirical ...
4.5 REGIONAL INEQUALITY IN DISTRIBUTION OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE Regional inequality in the allocation of social assistance has repeatedly been raised as an issue (see Goldman 1998; World Bank, 1995). This is also the problem of ...
Branko Milanovi?, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOCIAL ASSISTANCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term social assistance is used in the context of the following news items.
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Social assistance system fix will cost Ontario, but no one knows how …
Ontario's minister of community and social services can't say whether the government will have to shell out more money to fix a support payment system that has ... «CBC.ca, May 15»
2
Problem-plagued welfare computer system has 'overwhelmed' staff …
... into problems with the province's flawed social services computer system. ... at the Social Assistance Management System (SAMS), a new software system ... «Toronto Star, Apr 15»
3
500000 Ontario tax forms shredded after errors linked to computer …
As many as 500,000 social assistance tax forms had to be shredded and reprinted because of errors caused by Ontario's troubled new welfare computer system, ... «Toronto Star, Mar 15»
4
Hundreds of social assistance recipients affected by privacy breach
Helena Jaczek, Ontario's Minister for Community and Social Services is surrounded by the media following question period at Queen's Park Legislature in ... «Globalnews.ca, Mar 15»
5
B.C. ends child-support clawback for poor parents
Last fall, an all-party finance committee made a number of recommendations to address poverty, focusing on social assistance rates and the minimum wage, ... «Globalnews.ca, Feb 15»
6
Ontario seeks adviser to investigate problematic social assistance
TORONTO – Ontario is looking for a third-party adviser to help with its problem-plagued rollout of a new system responsible for social assistance payments. «Globalnews.ca, Feb 15»
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Ontario's welfare computer glitches are not the first
Fast forward to the present, and days after SAMS (Social Assistance Management ... and a former social assistance policy analyst with the Ontario government. «Toronto Star, Jan 15»
8
Controversial social assistance software is 'the new normal'
Workers have been doing case files by hand since the province implemented social assistance management software (SAMS) in November — a system so ... «CBC.ca, Jan 15»
9
OPSEU claims problems still 'plague' Ontario social assistance
Helena Jaczek, Ontario's Minister for Community and Social Services is surrounded by the media following question period at Queen's Park Legislature in ... «Globalnews.ca, Dec 14»
10
Ontario public servants taking province to court over social
TORONTO – A public servants' union is taking the Ontario government to court over what it calls a “flawed” computer system responsible for social assistance ... «Globalnews.ca, Dec 14»

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