1.   Among themselves, economists usually agree that welfare payments and unemployment insurance make getting a job less attractive.

2.   In any event, the welfare payment, from the point of view of the poor, is anything but negligibly small.

3.   It will be another five years before welfare recipients start becoming ineligible to receive welfare payments underwritten by the federal government.

4.   It would be absurd and self-defeating to ask poor families to pay the taxes needed to finance their welfare payments!

5.   The liberal looks at welfare payments and sees them as pitifully low.

6.   This fuelled Opposition fears that the committee was set up to rubber stamp massive cuts in welfare payments.

7.   Thousands of people who should get welfare payments never even bother to claim them.

8.   What shows up in the statistics as fringe benefits is really a private social welfare payment from the young to the old.

9.   Today, elaborate financial cushions - unemployment insurance, welfare payments and so on - have made it less disastrous to be out of a job for a while.