T he looming depletion of the Social Security fund poses a significant threat to retirees in the United States. Since 2010, the program has been operating with a cash flow deficit, and its $2.7 ...

A California budget windfall should be used in part to boost monthly welfare grants, university funding and efforts to address the state's housing and homelessness crisis, state Senate Democratic ...

The inmate welfare fund is overseen by a committee of public-safety officials that meets monthly to determine how the money should be spent. The panel includes a dozen sheriff’s officials ...

Curtis works a total of 30 hours a week between the Missoula YWCA and other jobs in order to earn her monthly welfare benefit check. Since state welfare benefits were cut by 26 percent Aug. 1, she ...