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Social welfare may refer to:

• Welfare is used to refer to both to people's well-being, and to systems which are designed to provide for people.
• In economics, the utility of people considered in aggregate. (See Welfare economics and social welfare function.)
• The provision of a wide range of social services, for the benefit of individual citizens. All collective interventions to meet certain needs of the individual and/or to serve the wider interests of society may be broadly grouped into categories of welfare. This usage is closely related to the idea of the welfare state.

See also

• Affordable Housing
• Social policy
• Social security
• Social safety net
• Social work
• Subsidized housing
• Welfare state