social care
Social assistance is a legally regulated, needs-based social benefit for people in need (also: minimum income ).
Social assistance is predominantly only available in the more affluent industrialized countries , whereas no social assistance is paid in third world countries . The situation in emerging countries is very different .
Regarding the legal situation in different countries :
- Social welfare (Germany)
- Social welfare (Switzerland)
- Social assistance (Austria)
- Revenu de solidarité active (France)
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Wiktionary: Social welfare - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations