"welfare gap" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a term that typically refers to the difference in income or resources between two groups of people. For example, "The widening welfare gap between the wealthy and the working poor is a major issue in our society today."
And it would allow the huge welfare gap between urban and rural Colombia to be bridged.
We study the effects of trade in knowledge and ordinary goods on the income and welfare gap between a leading and a lagging region.
He talks of a "welfare gap in this country - between those living long-term in the welfare system and those outside it".
Second, we show that increasing the rate at which the lagging region copies the technology for producing knowledge goods narrows the income and welfare gap between the leading and the lagging regions.
In the changing world of housing and welfare policy, gaps in the evidence on older people's housing options ought to be of concern to policymakers and commissioners of housing, care and support because of the effects on existing and prospective residents.
Despite the Ministry of Health providing basic healthcare inside the welfare centers, gaps in service delivery remained.
That has since fallen to just 23% nationally and even lower in many southern states without alternative forms of welfare filling the gap.
For example, if their topic is "Economics," they might identify the Depression, housing the homeless, wealth and income gap, welfare policies and bankruptcy as the items they will annotate.
Rachael Welfare, operations director for Gap Filler, a charitable organisation filling the "gaps" of Christchurch with pop-up creative projects, said: "Before the quake, people thought of Christchurch as quite conservative, but now the opportunities have given people a blank canvas, if nothing else, and people are very open-minded about what the spaces could be".
It warned of a "growing generational gap" in welfare provision since the 2007 financial crisis, with average spending per head set to fall by 7 per cent for children and 9 per cent among working age adults.
The proportion of non-pensioner benefits linked to contributions in the UK has dropped by around two-thirds since the 1970s, with means-testing filling the gap, turning welfare payment into the sort of residual function Richard Titmuss was thinking of when he warned that services for the poor would become poor services.
