"work on welfare" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to activities or policies related to welfare programs, such as care for people in need or efforts to reduce poverty. For example, "The government has been working on welfare reform to ensure everyone in the country has access to basic resources."
Freud began his work on welfare reform knowing, by his own admission, nothing about welfare.
Emphasizing the weakening of work on welfare at least suggests that unemployment is the fault of the individual, rather than the administration's failed economic policies.
The Indian economist, who this year became Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, was officially awarded the prize for his work on welfare economics.
Allies also expect her to continue Iain Duncan Smith's work on welfare reform, though the former leader's bitter backing for Andrea Leadsom probably rules him out of a cabinet return.
"And isn't it a terrible shock to find out that these days in Northern Ireland there are more people in work on welfare benefits than there are out of work on welfare benefits?
They have Monday home evenings; they work on welfare farms and give a percentage of their earnings to the church.
House Republicans are planning to move their own prescription drug plan to the House floor before Memorial Day and are working on welfare legislation.
Mr. Gingrich, in fact, wrote the foreward to Mr. Perry's book "Fed Up!" Mr. Gingrich and former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania have known each other for two decades from their time in Congress, where they worked on welfare reform.
Mr. Gingrich, in fact, wrote the forward to Mr. Perry's book "Fed Up!" Mr. Gingrich and former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania have known each other for two decades from their time in Congress, where they worked on welfare reform.
So when we started working on welfare reform, the support levels for a family of three -- before welfare -- varied from a low of under $200 a month in Mississippi, Texas and one or two other places to $665 a month in Vermont.
States around the country are slashing cash benefits, reducing time limits and, in some cases, imposing strict work requirements on welfare applicants, said LaDonna Pavetti, an expert on welfare who works at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
