"subsistence assistance" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to help or aid given to someone to cover the basic necessities of life, such as food, shelter, and clothing. Example: The government provides subsistence assistance to families in poverty to help them meet their basic needs.
We create welfare policies that perpetuate the cycles of poverty by providing only subsistence-level cash assistance which narrows the doors to education and training, and pushes recipients into low-wage, no-benefit employment.
Small movable water pumps can be of great assistance to subsistence farmers that need such support most.
More than half of patients earn below the poverty line [ 10] and a quarter of these maintain their daily subsistence through food for work assistance programme.
It is important that services and professionals especially consider the needs of individuals with chronic illness who depend on social assistance for their subsistence, as they may be in a particularly vulnerable and dependent position in relation to public services.
From a public health and policy perspective it is important to study this group, as they are disadvantaged not only in terms of having a chronic illness, but also in terms of being dependent on social assistance for their subsistence which may further exacerbate their ill health and contribute to social exclusion.
The judge, Sterling Johnson Jr. of the Federal District Court, said the agency had "chronically and systematically" delayed or stopped subsistence benefits, including emergency housing, rent assistance, food stamps, Medicaid and other services that it administers for about 25,000 New Yorkers who have AIDS or are H.I.V.-positive.
The judge, Sterling Johnson Jr. of Federal District Court, ruled that the agency, the Division of AIDS Services and Income Support, had "chronically and systematically" delayed or terminated subsistence benefits, including emergency housing, rent assistance, food stamps, Medicaid and other services, that it administers for about 25,000 New Yorkers who have AIDS or are H.I.V.-positive.
Social-transfer payments, which in Denmark are primarily publicly funded, were also included; they include subsistence allowances, pensions, social security, social assistance, publicly funded personal support for education, and others.
Mr. Trump and his budget director, Mick Mulvaney, the architect of the plan, have sought to redefine as welfare subsistence benefit programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, and housing aid.
