CASE

PREP

1. What is welfare

- Gov funded social or economic
programs created to assist those
who can demonstrate need.
- Welfare favors the unprivileged
- To ensure that the poor can meet
their basic human needs .
- However, welfare has evolved from
being just a trust fund to help poor
into a more comprehensive way
and that is to breach the economic
gap .
- Quote Wan Azizah

2. Types of welfare

- Welfare is a part of subsidies
- Examples
 - Welfare is initially meant for the
needy people but in certain cases
we make welfare applicable to
everyone
- This can also be categorized as
public amenities like utility,
education, medical care and so on .
- Two types of welfare
- Generalized welfare
- Targeted welfare

3. Mechanism of Welfare

- Unrestricted welfare
- For public use
- No income is taken into point
- It is applicable for everyone
- Due to the fact that providing
public amenities only to a certain
group of people will be
discriminatory
- Medical aid , education and
subsidized fuel prices
- Few restrictions almost non
existence
- Large quantity obtaining the
benefits therefore it does not
exclusively cater for people who
are actually in need .
- Thus welfare that is applicable to
everyone does not improve the
wealth gap
- Minimal distribution of welfare
which are targeted to the needy
people.
- Targeted welfare is more restrictive
not just in the service that it
provides but in the application .
- Its harder for people to get welfare
in status quo
- Because they need to go through
various amount of filtering to
 ensure that the right people get
these targeted aids
- Its completely essential that
filtering occurs to ensure that
welfare provided isn’t
disapopriated
- When there are two forms of
welfare , it means to say there is
not an equivalent form of
distribution between welfare is
enjoyed by the public and the
welfare which is enjoyed by people
who are in the B40 group .
- How is this factually true ?
- Amount of allocation which is
targeted to the needy people are
so little and it doesn’t even amount
to half of the total welfare .

4. Direction of the debate

- Example of parlimen
- In this debate we are talking about
welfare that would be exclusively
used for the poor .
- Stakeholders are b40
- In status quo there is very limited
services that are exclusive to poor
people .
- Countries cherry pick specific
sectors
- Generalized welfare provides less
burden to poor people but it’s the
same less burden which still does
not breach the economic gap .
- Poor people remain poor
- In the limited allocation , the
question is should we give
monetary or goods and services .
- We on side opp tell u that providing
them with money is much better
than goods and services .

- With the limited allocation towards
targeted groups , the number of
services that can be provided is
limited .

- Taking away monetary aid will be
redundant as then we are taking
away the only exclusivity that is
provided by the poor.

- Investing only in goods and services
, will turn into getting more
services , you might get services
but at a slower rate which will now
be in efficient .



# The purpose of welfare is already
aligned with the policies that are made .
# We are talking about welfare that is
exclusive only to the poor people .

5. Points to make early on :

- Only is rationing is considered to be
the only consistent goods and
services that are exclusive for the
poor .
- Housing and so on are not
consistent as it changes over time
especially when there is a
transitioning of political ideology .

6. The nature of people under B40

- They require money to be used
constantly following their term of
needs .
- Paying utilities
 - Gov cant say oh no we will provide
special rates for poor people in
terms of utilities . this is due to the
fact that utilities are highly
privatized and even if they can do
that then the dependency of poor
people will increase as all is
provided in a silver platter .
- Services allocated to them is so
little .


7. Problems:

- There is already a big ratio of
distribution between is allocated
publicly and exclusively .
- There are only a range of services
that can be provided exclusively to
the poor .
- WHY?
 - To make a standard rate of services
like free housing for all within a
category is hard .
- It is not proportional to how poor
they are .
- There is not enough proportionality
- Providing these services are
discriminatory to people who are
only poor
- Because there are more restrictions
and filters
- The fact that services are just costly
- It isn’t applicable to all sectors
- You can only prioritise one sector

8. Extension on monetary .

- Why is monetary aid the best form
of welfare when we are talking
about targeted groups which is the
actual context of this debate .
Stance : Aligned with the purpose of
welfare , people who really need them
require special provisions and exclusivity
and this case its money .