0 a payment made by the government or an organization to a person who needs help because they do not have enough money:
1 a visit made by a police officer or other official person to someone's home in order to check that they are safe and well and do not have any problems:
Together we ended the old welfare system. And we're now replacing welfare checks with paychecks.
An ineffective job guarantee that amounts to a welfare check plus onerous work requirements would be bad policy.
Today, about 24,000 poor Louisiana families get welfare checks - down from nearly 73,000 in 1996.
The family, which refused to take food stamps and welfare checks, lived on donations.
She left Halifax for Toronto, where she is sleeping on a friend's floor until she gets her first welfare cheque.
Law enforcement authorities said they received a call at 1:19 a.m. Sunday from a man asking for a welfare check on his two children, a 7-year-old boy and 3-year-old girl.
Whenever the police contacted the women for a welfare check, they consistently said that they were happy and were living with the man of their own free will.
We have been evacuating people who wanted to get out, protecting properties from further flooding and carrying out welfare checks for those who chose to remain behind.
