Workfare is a government system where people who have no job must work — or must join training or a job-search programme — in order to keep receiving money from the state. The whole word is built to sit against welfare, which is money given because you need it. Workfare says: money given because you did something for it. It is an uncountable noun, so you say workfare, not a workfare, and you talk about workfare programmes, workfare schemes, or workfare policies. The word is political, and it is not neutral. People who support the idea use it to mean fairness and a path back into a job. People who oppose it use it to mean forcing poor people into unpaid or badly paid work, and they say it punishes people for being unemployed. So when you read the word, look at who is writing. It is mostly used about the United States and Britain, and you meet it in news and academic writing rather than in daily conversation.

工作福利制（領政府補助前須先工作或受訓的制度）