The issue of welfare** and the cliff effect in the subsistence allowance has been identified for a long time, and it is not a recent issue to be raised. A number of scholars have already conducted relevant research. This article is inspired by scholars and briefly introduced in straightforward language. Personal opinion, for reference only.
What is Benefit**?
Welfare in the subsistence allowance** refers to the method of linking various welfare policies with the subsistence allowance.
The welfare situation depends on the specific local policies, including but not limited to: medical assistance, education assistance (such as grants, student loans), housing assistance (such as public rental housing, dilapidated housing renovation, rental subsidies), employment assistance (such as skills training subsidies, entrepreneurship and employment subsidies), pension insurance subsidies, electricity fee reduction, disabled living subsidies, etc.
There are many benefits and discounts, too many to mention, and some have been sorted out before, so you can refer to the following.
What policies can I enjoy after eating the subsistence allowance?Sorting out preferential policies related to subsistence allowance (practical collection) To put it simply, welfare** is to concentrate a lot of benefits and preferential treatment on the subsistence allowance object. The policies of the party and the state are good, so that low-income households can enjoy a lot of benefits and preferential treatment.
What is the cliff effect?
To put it simply, the cliff effect refers to the phenomenon that after the subject obtains the status of the subsistence allowance, the standard of living will be significantly different from that of the marginal recipient.
Welfare** can be said to be one of the reasons for the subsistence cliff effect. Generally speaking, the standard of living of the subsistence allowance recipients should be lower than that of the marginal subsistence allowance recipients, otherwise there is no reason to only help the former.
However, with the gradual increase of welfare**, many welfare policies have been added to the subsistence allowance recipients, which may lead to a significant reduction in the cost of living of the subsistence allowance recipients, and their actual living pressure may be lower than that of the subsistence allowance marginal recipients, while the actual living standards may be higher than the subsistence allowance marginal recipients.
As a result, there may be a situation where individual people with subsistence allowances are better off than those without subsistence allowances. Some people who withdrew from the subsistence allowance due to improved living conditions did not have the same living standards as before they withdrew.
This obviously doesn't seem reasonable. It is constantly being improved everywhere.
How to reduce welfare** and cliff effect?
On the issue of welfare, you can try to subdivide the specific conditions for various benefits, so that some people who do not meet the conditions of the subsistence allowance but are in difficulty can also feel the warmth and care from the first, so that the masses who have withdrawn from the subsistence allowance can continue to enjoy other discounts.
After the welfare** problem is solved, the cliff effect can be improved to a certain extent. For families on the verge of subsistence allowance, corresponding assistance and preferential treatment can also be given in the same way as subsistence allowance.
In fact, this is now being done across the country. For example, Guangxi has subdivided low-income groups, stipulating that low-income households, extremely poor, marginal households of subsistence allowance, and families with financial difficulties are all low-income families. As long as it is a low-income family, they can enjoy targeted benefits and preferential treatment according to different levels of difficulty.
It is believed that with the passage of time, China's social assistance system will become more and more perfect, and the people's livelihood will become more and more secure.
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