In 2023, there were an average of ** million monthly recipients of social security benefits in the United States. This is an increase since 2022, and an increase of nearly *** million in the last ten years.In the United States, Social Security benefits can be paid to eligible retirees, widowers, disabled workers, and their families.

This statistic shows the percentage of the population aged 25 and over living in households that participated in different public assistance programs offered in the United States in 2018. Programs included here are Medicaid, School Lunch and the Food Stamps program. 46 percent of individuals with no high school diploma lived in households that had participated in Medicaid as of 2018.

Graph and download economic data for Government current expenditures: State and local: Income security: Welfare and social services (G161141A027NBEA) from 1959 to 2023 about social assistance, state & local, expenditures, government, services, income, GDP, and USA.

Since 2015, the number of recipients of social welfare in Sweden has decreased steadily. Whereas more than 415,000 people received social welfare in Sweden in 2015, it had sunk below 300,000 in 2022. However, even though the total number of recipients has decreased, the value of the total benefits has increased since 2017.

To help people reach a reasonable standard of living

The social welfare benefits in Sweden are administered by the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen in Swedish). The aim of the benefits is to help people in need to reach a reasonable standard of living through monthly benefits. The amount of the average monthly payment was around 9,100 Swedish kronor in 2022.

 Benefits in foreign and Swedish households

Looking at households with Swedish-born and foreign-born citizens, the most common group of recipients was Swedish-born single men living without children. However, when looking at couples with children, far more foreign-born citizens received social benefits.

This table provides information on the number of young people aged 0 to 25 living in welfare families. For the demarcation of a social assistance family, we looked at social assistance benefits under the Participation Act or social assistance-related benefits under the Income Provision for Older and Partially Disabled Unemployed Workers Act (IOAW), the Income Provision for Older and Partially Disabled Former Self-Employed Persons Act (IOAZ), the Self-Employed Persons Assistance Decree (Bbz) and the Work and Income Artists Act (WWIK).

Benefits under the Temporary Bridging Scheme for Self-Employed Entrepreneurs (Tozo) are not included in this table. The Tozo provides self-employed people with an additional living allowance and a loan for working capital to deal with liquidity problems caused by the coronavirus crisis.

This table shows figures (31 December of the reference year) for young people living in welfare families, with a possible breakdown by region (including municipality level), type of household and the age of the youngest child in the household.

In order to show how young people in the Netherlands are doing, the National Youth Monitor describes more than 70 topics in addition to this topic. The topics are called indicators.

Data available from 2007.

Status of figures The figures for all years are final.

Changes as of 26 June 2024: None, this is a new table. This table is the successor of: Young people in welfare families; 0 to 25 year olds, 2023 region. See paragraph 3.

When will there be new figures? New figures are expected in the second quarter of 2025. The table is then replaced by a new table with the then most recent area layouts.

The number of people receiving social benefits in Denmark decreased from 2013. Moreover, there were significantly more people from non-western countries than people from western countries who received social benefits between 2012 and 2022. In 2022, 14,000 people with a non-western origin and around 2,000 with a western origin received social benefits in Denmark. The majority of social benefits recipients had Danish origin though. The Danish government implemented a reform in 2014 that tightened the conditions for receiving social benefits.

Graph and download economic data for Value Added by Industry: Educational Services, Health Care, and Social Assistance as a Percentage of GDP (VAPGDPESHS) from Q1 2005 to Q1 2025 about social assistance, value added, health, private industries, education, percent, services, private, industry, GDP, and USA.

In this paper we explore the relationship between Americans’ attitudes toward immigrants and immigration and their attitudes toward welfare. Using data from the Cumulative American National Election Study (CANES) from 1992-2012, we find ample evidence of the influence of immigration attitudes on both individuals’ attitudes toward welfare recipients and their attitudes toward increased welfare spending. These immigration effects persist even in face of statistical controls for attitudes toward African Americans and attitudes toward the poor; indeed, in our models the magnitude of the effects of immigration attitudes surpasses the magnitude of effects of attitudes toward blacks. Further, our findings of immigration effects withstand a range of robustness tests. Our results point to the possible "immigrationalization" of Americans’ welfare attitudes and provide strong evidence that how Americans think about immigration and immigrants is a major factor in how they think about welfare.

This dataset is about book subjects. It has 6 rows and is filtered where the books is The politics of social welfare in America. It features 10 columns including number of authors, number of books, earliest publication date, and latest publication date.

Work and situation in life of the American population.

Topics: Current employment; time worked each week; hourly wage; frequency of unemployment; attitude to women working, government responsibility for older people and amount of unemployment benefit; possibility of individual planning for the future; expectations of educational opportunities of the children; occupational mobility; achievement motivation; education difference between the spouses; family size; attitudes to the extended family; regional mobility; savings account; assessment of condition of health; party preference.

Demography: party preference; age (classified); race; marital status; religious denomination; religiousness; school education; occupation; professional position; employment; head of household; economic area; housing situation; party inclination; party identification; city size; membership.

This table aims to show the distribution of welfare of persons in the Netherlands, measured by their income. The figures in this table are broken down to different person characteristics.

The population consists of all persons in private households with income on January 1st of the reporting year. In the population for the subject low-income persons, persons in both student households and households with income only for a part of the year have been excluded. The population for the subject economic independence consists of all persons aged from 15 to the OAP-age in private households with income on January 1st of the reporting year, except for students and pupils.

Data available from: 2011

Status of the figures: The figures for 2011 to 2022 are final. The figures for 2023 are preliminary.

Changes as of November 2024: The preliminary figures for 2023 have been added.

When will new figures be published? New figures will be published in the fall of 2025.

Approximately ***** thousand people in Japan with disabilities received welfare services of support for continuous employment. The care for daily life was the second most used welfare service among people with disabilities at nearly *** thousand users.

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Bronx census tract boundaries from the 2010 census with SNAP data. Data reflects the percentage of recipients receiving SNAP. The total should add up or close to 100%. They are NOT the percentage of the population in that census tract receiving SNAP benefits.

The social welfare benefits in Sweden aims to help people in need to reach a reasonable standard of living through monthly monetary benefits. The average monthly benefits increased from 2013 until 2021, but fell somewhat in 2022. In 2022, the average amount paid out per month was 9,135 Swedish kronor. In 2021, the total expenses of social welfare benefits were at almost 12 billion Swedish kronor.

Decreasing number of recipients

In 2021, around 340,000 individuals received social welfare benefits in Sweden. The number of recipients has decreased steadily since 2015, even though the total amount has increased.

 More common to receive benefits for households with children

The most common type of household receiving benefits were single woman households with children. Almost 14 percent of all single-woman households with children received social welfare benefits in 2021, and eight percent of all households consisting of single men with children received benefits. In general, the share of receiving households was higher for the ones with children than those without.

In 2023, **** percent of Black people living in the United States were living below the poverty line, compared to *** percent of white people. That year, the total poverty rate in the U.S. across all races and ethnicities was **** percent. Poverty in the United States Single people in the United States making less than ****** U.S. dollars a year and families of four making less than ****** U.S. dollars a year are considered to be below the poverty line. Women and children are more likely to suffer from poverty, due to women staying home more often than men to take care of children, and women suffering from the gender wage gap. Not only are women and children more likely to be affected, racial minorities are as well due to the discrimination they face. Poverty data Despite being one of the wealthiest nations in the world, the United States had the third highest poverty rate out of all OECD countries in 2019. However, the United States' poverty rate has been fluctuating since 1990, but has been decreasing since 2014. The average median household income in the U.S. has remained somewhat consistent since 1990, but has recently increased since 2014 until a slight decrease in 2020, potentially due to the pandemic. The state that had the highest number of people living below the poverty line in 2020 was California.

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In 2023, the number of people employed in the health and welfare sector in the Netherlands increased by 31 thousand (+1.92 percent) since 2022. While the growth is slowing down, with 1.6 million, the number is at its peak in the observed period. Find more statistics on other topics about the Netherlands with key insights such as operating result per fte in hospitals and share of mental health institutions with a profitability less than zero percent.

Miller, R., and Bairoliya, N. (2023). “Health, Longevity, and Welfare Inequality of Older Americans.” Review of Economics and Statistics 105:5, 1145–1160.

This dataset is about books. It has 1 row and is filtered where the book is Making social welfare policy in America : three case studies since 1950. It features 7 columns including author, publication date, language, and book publisher.