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: --
While officers were conducting a welfare check on the children before the mother's arrest, the family's dogs attacked a neighbor.
You can see that the homes are completely submerged in water. What this crew is doing is knocking on doors, doing welfare checks and making sure people are OK.
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.
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.
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.
She left Halifax for Toronto, where she is sleeping on a friend's floor until she gets her first welfare cheque.
The family, which refused to take food stamps and welfare checks, lived on donations.
Today, about 24,000 poor Louisiana families get welfare checks - down from nearly 73,000 in 1996.