Information > Financial Terms > This page

In-kind Transfers
Source: Encyclopedia of Banking & Finance (9h Edition) by Charles J Woelfel
(We recommend this as work of authority.)

Subsidies to individuals that reduce the cost of specific goods and services such as education, food stamps and nutritional programs, housing, medical care, energy assistance, and child care.  In-kind transfers are government programs that seek to increase the consumption of the subsidized goods and services.

Back to Information