Sentence examples for asking for welfare from inspiring English sources

Voicing sentiments that are common enough among arrivals from the former Soviet Union -- though not, generally, among their children, educated here -- she complained bitterly about the bad treatment caseworkers give ex-Soviets asking for welfare, about the loud music of her neighbors and the continual worries about making ends meet.

Mr Jinga said most Romanians workers were aged between 18 and 35, were in good health and did not require medical care or ask for welfare benefits.

"We are not asking for corporate welfare".

Analysis by researchers, led by the University of Kent's social policy team, said polls and focus groups had revealed a quarter of claimants had "delayed or avoided asking for" vital welfare payments because of "misleading news coverage driven by [government] policy".

I don't ask for no welfare.

— On Feb. 18, 2016, a female caller asked for a welfare check on Paisley Park, but it wasn't clear whom she wanted authorities to check on.

Nine years ago, Mr. Rucci -- 45, a butcher's son from South Philadelphia, a philosophy major in college -- was standing in a welfare office asking for help to pay his rent.

That was the same month that Representative Dave Camp of Michigan wrote to the I.R.S. asking for information about all "social welfare" groups that had applied for tax-exempt status in 2010 and 2011, to determine whether the I.R.S. was targeting conservative groups.

Sturgeon wrote at the weekend to Lord Freud, the UK welfare minister, asking for the cap on discretionary spending, currently fixed at 150% of the local housing funds from the UK government, to be lifted to allow that extra money to be used.

"They are not on welfare, they're not asking for handouts.

Ms. Bufong is an eligibility specialist for the city's welfare department; the irony of asking for help is not lost on her.