“I wasn’t talking about welfare but rather about health insurance, WIC, and/or food stamps)”
“It is my understanding that those are welfare distributions”
Oh. I didn’t know that. I never heard the word used that way. I thought welfare referred to people who don’t work and get welfare instead of a salary. People talk about living on welfare. That sounds like it means that it’s their parnassah. (as opposed to the things I mentioned that are just supplements).
You might be right. I just didn’t realize that it is used that way. I don’t think that most people I know use it that way, though.