In the US "welfare" normally refers to social assistance programs not social insurance. That is no one refers to social security retirement benefits as "welfare

In the US "welfare" normally refers to social assistance programs not social insurance. That is no one refers to social security retirement benefits as "welfare" even though technically it is a form of it. The common trope is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen