Income Support Program

A Income Support Program is a social welfare program that involves the distribution of liquid assets.

• AKA: Cash-based Welfare.
• Context:
  • It can range from being an Unconditional Cash-based Social Program to being a Conditional Cash-based Social Program.
  • It can range from being a Less-Then-Basic Income Social Program to being a Basic Income Social Program to being a Greater-Then-Basic Social Program.
  • It can range from being a Cash-based Income Support Program to being a Voucher-based Income Support Program to being a Service-Subsidy Welfare Program (such as a daycare program).
• Example(s):
  • a Young Children Income Support Program.
  • a National Social Pension, such as a Canadian Old-Age Security Program[1] (conditional basic income provision program).
  • a Basic Income Program, such as a Manitoba MINCOME Program.
  • a Food-Directed Income Support Program, such as a U.S. food stamp program.
  • a Cash for Vaccination Program.
  • a Carbon Dioxide Fee and Dividend Program.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Service-based Social Program, such as National Healthcare Program or a Public Transit Program, or a Charity Service Program (such as a U.S. veterans canteen service[2]).
  • a Law Enforcement Institution.
• See: Poverty, NGOs, Financial Aid.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_safety_net Retrieved:2014-4-5.
  • Social safety nets, or "socioeconomic safety nets", are non-contributory transfer programs seeking to prevent the poor or those vulnerable to shocks and poverty from falling below a certain poverty level. Safety net programs can be provided by the public sector (the state and aid donors) or by the private sector (NGOs, private firms, charities, and informal household transfers). Safety net transfers include:
    • Cash transfers
    • Food-based programs such as supplementary feeding programs and food stamps, vouchers, and coupons
    • In-kind transfers such as school supplies and uniforms
    • Conditional cash transfers
    • Price subsidies for food, electricity, or public transport.
    • Public works
    • Fee waivers and exemptions for health care, schooling and utilities

      On average, spending on safety nets accounts for 1 to 2 percent of GDP across developing and transition countries, though sometimes much less or much more. In the last decade, a visible growing expertise in various areas of safety nets has taken place. However, even though an increasing number of safety net programs are extremely well thought out, correctly implemented, and demonstrably effective, many others face — and create — serious challenges.

• Editorial. “Our View: Bumpy start to GMI should come as no surprise." Cyprus Mail.
  • QUOTE: Welfare fraud or abuse takes place in all countries that offer welfare to their citizens

2013

• http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTSOCIALPROTECTION/EXTSAFETYNETSANDTRANSFERS/0,,contentMDK:22200792~pagePK:210058~piPK:210062~theSitePK:282761,00.html#C
  • QUOTE: Cash transfer programs. Programs that transfer cash to eligible people or households. Common variants include child allowances, social pensions, needs-based transfers, and conditional cash transfers.

     Safety nets. Noncontributory transfer programs targeted in some manner to the poor and those vulnerable to poverty and shocks. Analogous to the U.S. term welfare and the European term social assistance.

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