Sentence examples for be on welfare from inspiring English sources

And wouldn't that mean that the 30 or 130 institutions would have to be "on welfare" rather than the nine?

To be "on welfare" is to be on Benefits Street or part of the Great British Benefits Handout: somewhere no one in their right mind wants to be.

Denise Lawson, an administrative assistant and minister who used to be on welfare, was one of them.

On the one hand, foreign-born residents are more likely to be on welfare and to be uneducated (though other research indicates that legal immigrants do better than illegal ones).

You want to be on welfare?

"If I were single, I'd be on welfare," she said.

"I'm one check away from being on welfare," Ms. Francis said.

At any one time, roughly 30% of Tulare County's 300,200 residents are on welfare.

You're on welfare.

I'm on welfare.

The others are on welfare.