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In political science and economics, a 'transfer payment' is a payment of money from a government to an individual for which no good or service is required in return. In economics, government transfer payments can be considered a negative tax, since in the case of a tax, people pay the government without getting any good or service in direct exchange.
Examples of transfer payments include welfare, unemployment insurance, social security payments, publicly-funded pensions and public support for students, including scholarships and financial aid and death benefits for parents.

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Alternative use for administrative transfer

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Alternative use for administrative transfer

In some federal systems the term is also used to refer to payments from one order of government to another; for example in Canada, transfer payments usually refer to a system of payments from the federal government to the provinces. Major Canadian transfer payments include equalization payments, the Canada Health Transfer and the Canada Social Transfer (formerly the Canada Health and Social Transfer) and Territorial Formula Financing.
They are sometimes referred to as income transfers

See also

★ Welfare

★ Workfare

External links

★ Department of Finance (Canada): Federal Transfers to Provinces and Territories