Welfare may refer to:

• Well-being, quality of life
  • Animal welfare, the quality of life of animals, and concerns thereabout
• Welfare, a film directed by Frederick Wiseman

In economics:

• Social welfare provision, government programs which seek to provide a minimum level of income, service or other support for disadvantaged peoples
• Welfare (financial aid), financial assistance paid by taxpayers to people who are unable to support themselves, cf. Workfare, an alternative model requiring recipients to participate in work-rehabilitation programs,
  • Corporate welfare, a pejorative describing a government's bestowal of money grants, tax breaks, or other special favorable treatment on corporations
• Welfare state, in which the state assumes primary responsibility for the welfare of its citizens beyond a minimum level
• Welfare economics, determines allocative efficiency and the income distribution within an economy; see also, Social welfare function
• Social security, social welfare service concerned with social protection