What is the toal cost for Welfare in the USA?

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If you mean, all welfare, in the USA, including pensions, Then the
answer is 535billion dollars a year. So just a bit more than the army
budget.

here are some sources, the stats in this case are different, 471
billion dollars in 2003,

http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/issueguide_socialsecurity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_security_%28United_States%29

For the US states the average amount is less. Texas for example spends
24 dollars on each person, while the average for america is 54 dollars
from each state on public welfare

http://www.baptiststandard.com/2003/2_17/print/clc_legislators.html

which would be on average 54 dollars a peron, which added together
would reach 14 billion dollars a year. So America spends around
500billion a year.