Sentence examples for class welfare from inspiring English sources

Middle class welfare All parents receive child benefit and all pensioners get the winter fuel payment, regardless of income.

If Labor and the Greens are serious about social mobility, and not just middle class welfare, they should rethink their opposition.

It sits with cruel irony against the increase in middle class welfare that has been effortlessly sanctioned at the expense of children in poverty.

The targeted nature of our welfare system is clear when you look at the breakdown of assistance by household income quintile: The "fat" in middle class welfare was so meagre that Hockey had to target unemployed youth.

There was also pressure on Clegg to take a tougher line on so-called middle class welfare, amid fears that further chunks will be taken out of low income welfare before the 2015 election.

New social services minister Christian Porter told the West Australian newspaper his brief was to tackle middle class welfare and "payments that end up directed at recipients on more substantial incomes".

"Middle-class welfare" is also in the firing line.

The one great thing about this budget is that it puts to rest the myth of middle-class welfare.

The government will slash tax breaks for private health insurance, pension contributions and other forms of middle-class welfare.

But if George Osborne is to be believed, their entitlements are likely to dip, as we are told the chancellor has "declared war on middle-class welfare".

Earlier this week, a report by the thinktank Reform, which is close to the Conservatives, called for a curb on "middle-class welfare".