Is it a handout or social welfare?
A social welfare system provides assistance to needy individuals and families.
The definition of a handout is - a portion of food, clothing, or money given to or as if to a beggar. A handout is a gift not a right. We all have a right to an adequate standard of living under the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Article 25.(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
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