welfares system in terms of its targeted object. Basically, it is a“general” unilateral welfare measure. Its tinancial resource came from taxes. The assistances were funded by annual government budgets. Measures similar to the aforementioned social promotion used to be carried out in this country by ways of“welfareservices”. In other words, the government conducted the social promotion by ways of“providing inquiries service”,“establishing institutions”,“tax exemptions,” etc. The payments were made by either service labors or materials in an“abstract” form. Conversely, a “concrete” subsidy provided by govemment can be seen only in certain payment items in general social insurance, or in care measures provided in a“specialpower relations”. However, as the health insurance program is“popularizing," and the citizens' sense of welfare is rising, the“new trend” about social welfares is bound to become campaigns issues in the earliest measure of social promotion to have a nationwide legal basis. This article concentrates on the norms regarding “senior citizens’ subsidies for living” and relevant measures. The author attempts to define this new welfare system, and to guide the readers evaluating this system from the viewpoint of social law’s jurisprudence, so as to avoid mislabeling this system with superficial political phrases such as “ballot briberies”.