Sentence examples for meager welfare from inspiring English sources
Ms. Jolly, a mother of three, said she had spent two years working at clerical tasks in exchange for a meager welfare check and had come in expecting to be cut off without a dime.
By the end of the morning, Dialina Blackhat, the unpaid case manager who works in the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, had finished sending out letters notifying her clients that they would not be receiving their meager welfare checks as planned.
The family's meager means -- welfare, S.S.I. benefits, a subsidized apartment -- did not allow for private home care, Ms. Manas said, and Medicaid kept rejecting her request for a nurse.
They also contend that Paraguay's social welfare programs remain meager compared with antipoverty projects in neighboring countries, which have lifted tens of millions of people out of abject living conditions.
The women I worked alongside were deeply offended that, because their welfare checks were too meager even to clothe their kids, they had to turn to the Salvation Army; before any help was forthcoming, they had to sit through intrusive grilling on their moral rectitude.
His father refused to accept welfare after the paper mill forced him into early retirement on a meager pension.
Financial contributions from the project will therefore enable them to reallocate their meager resources towards other basic pressing needs such as school fees, food and general welfare of the family.
While salaries for all but the loftiest were meager -- between 2,000 and 3,000 dinars a month, about $33 to $50 -- RTS had become a kind of social welfare agency for journalists too untalented or afraid to seek work elsewhere.
They find themselves in a trap: Dependent on meager state handouts because they are restricted from working or studying, they are under constant suspicion of milking the social welfare system.
