2007-08-25 12:12:15 · 13 answers · asked by Amanda M 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Social Security is a government savings plan for retired people which you pay into gradually throughout your life. Welfare is unemployment insurance you receive when you are unemployed and looking for new work.
There are limits to the time you can receive welfare, there are none for social security, assuming the government ever has any money to pay back to us considering the rate at which they're spending it now on foreign wars and the ridiculously huge federal deficit which has occurred in the last 7 years.
2007-08-25 12:19:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Social Security is something in which we all pay into as employees. We receive it back, or a portion thereof, when we reach a retirement age. That age continues to get higher. Welfare is a handout by the Government, us, to those who purposefully do not work or for some other reason do not have the financial means to afford the basics. I have been on both.
2007-08-25 12:20:47 · answer #2 · answered by 27ysq 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Social Security is supposed to be your own money that you paid into the system over your lifetime. Welfare is someone elses money
2007-08-25 13:06:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Social Security is getting back your own money; welfare is getting somebody else's.
2007-08-25 12:19:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Welfare is supposed to be only temporary. social security you put in in most cases.
2007-08-25 12:19:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Social Security is a program YOU pay into, welfare is just plain ripping-off hard working taxpayers.
2007-08-25 12:18:09 · answer #6 · answered by American Sunshine 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Social Security is what most Republicans get at retirement age, after they have worked until age 62 or older. Welfare is what most Democrats get from the time they are born.
2007-08-25 12:52:17 · answer #7 · answered by Johnny Reb 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Social Security is money you earned.
2007-08-25 12:17:40 · answer #8 · answered by facecancer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are forced to pay into Social Security.
If you don't you will go to prison.
Thanks to FDR.
(FDR had it set up so that the average person would die 6 years before he could draw it. (life span 56 at that time) After paying in all their lives.
It was a Government Take-Over.)
2007-08-25 12:21:20 · answer #9 · answered by wolf 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
http://www.ssa.gov/history/history.html
The link provided above is the history of SS.
http://www.crf-usa.org/bria/bria14_3.html
The link provided above is the history and outlines of what welfare is.
In a nutshell, they're both social programs that supplement income to families.
2007-08-25 12:18:36 · answer #10 · answered by Glen B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋