Needs-based social assistance

In thinking about benefit levels and possible reductions in work effort, the value of any noncash benefits must be taken into account. In a number of countries (for example, China, Jamaica, and Romania), recipients of needs-based social assistance also receive subsidized or free health insurance or waivers of user fees for health care. These may add substantially to the value of assistance, and thus to the possible incentive to reduce work effort or income in order to qualify for assistance. 

Cash transfers, including near cash (vouchers, coupons, and the like). Needs-based social assistance, noncontributory pensions and disability transfers, family allowances, food stamps. 

They serve as a basic needs-based social assistance program for the chronically poor with children. 

List the country s main public programs child allowances, noncontributory pensions, needs-based social assistance, food programs, public works, targeted fee waivers, any other social assistance programs, unemployment insurance and assistance or active labor market policies, contributory pensions, and so on. 

Needs-based social assistance. Provide transfers for poor populations based on need. 

The social assistance laws of Switzerland share two inherent features, the one being that benefits are based on need, the other reflecting the attempt to reintegrate needy persons into the labour market. Even so, both the regulations governing... 

Last resort programs. Needs-based, usually means-tested, programs designed to help those who are not assisted, or not assisted enough to prevent poverty, by social insurance (pensions, unemployment insurance) or universal programs (child allowances, education, and the like). 

Report diminishing or absence of hallucinations. Monitor medication effects and need for readjustment. Explore feelings or events that might trigger episodes. Assist in restructuring irrational beliefs by using reality-based approach. Date Client Social worker Social worker... 

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