transfer payments

transfer payments definition - finance
Money that is paid to individuals from government benefit programs such as Social Security, unemployment, and welfare benefits. Transfer payments are identified separately when calculating gross domestic product and gross national product.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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