The number of welfare recipients has grown fivefold in the past decade.
Or if the number of welfare recipients increases more than expected?
The number of welfare recipients has fallen from 12.2m in 1996 to 5.8m last June.
A large number of welfare payments and social transfers are now aimed at the elderly.
The number of welfare recipients at CUNY has shrunk to about 7,500 since workfare was instituted.
A queasy economy means that tax receipts will soon flag and the number of welfare claimants will rise.
The number of welfare recipients at CUNY has shrunk by more than a third, to about 18,000, since workfare was instituted, according to lawmakers.
One of the most visible changes was a huge drop in the number of welfare recipients, by more than half nationally and by 80percentt in Wisconsin.
Since then, the number of welfare recipients has dropped by nearly 7 million, or 57percentt -- much more than many experts had expected.
Andrews and the treasurer, Joe Hockey, have signalled that the government wants to "simplify" the number of welfare payments and supplements.
The decline in Minnesota was particularly large, as the number of welfare recipients fell 19.8percentto to 93,300 in December, from 116,290 in September.
