Welfare and its benefits

this all depend on the state that you live in you would have to check its guidlines. I live in PA and i think that each county has a little difference there too even though i dont think that they are supposed to but he is my deal I am unemployed my hubby works and the kids get medical, we do get a little over 400.00 month in food and no cash. I was working and because there are certain criterias for how they deduct things from earned and unearned income my hubby and i were eligable for medical when i was working, and we got only about 200.00 in food then. We have 3 kids 6 and under. I could get cash but it would only be like 20 bucks a month or something like that and i would have to participate in a job placement program, that is like 20 minutes away so that isnt worth the gas mileage. I hope this helps you out Good Luck

I do recieve food stamps.Here where i live to recieve foodstamps they base it on how much income is coming in and your household size.To recieve medicaid without any kids you have to be disabled.My father recieves medicaid along with ssi.They wont let you get medicaid if you dont have any kids if you are not disabled.They will let you get food stamps if not disabled but based upon your income.

In England there are a few different types of benefits. There is disability benefit and the amount and type depends on your disability and your other income, if any. There is an unemployment benefit which is job seekers allowance. That requires that you prove you are looking for work and is worked out either using any other current income or the amount you have paid in national insurance contributions. There is income support which isn't used so much any more as it has been replaced mostly with tax credits. income support is usually only given to single parents who are bringing up children along with tax credits. Tax credits can be working tax credits or child tax credits. Obviously the child tax credits require that you have at least one child under 19 and is also dependant on other income. Working tax credit is paid if you are over 25 and working between 16 and 35 hours per week (I think) and, again, also depends on your earnings as it is to top up your income to allow people to keep a little more of their wages. I, personally, have been on every one of these benefits at some point (mainly because they changed the names, etc. ie. I was getting income support which then changed to being part income support and part tax credits even though the amount was the same). I currently have child tax credits and my partner has working tax credits. The tax credits aren't really considered in the same way as other benefits. I think this may be because more people are able to claim them and because of the nature of them. They are a recent thing and have been portrayed in a good way from the start. We get the tax credits because we otherwise have a very low income which is not enough to live on (even by government standards!) and and because we have two children at home. The working tax credits are also an extra incentive for more people on benefits to go back to work without fear of being worse off.