Welfare is an unincorporated community 4 miles (6 km) southeast of Waring on the Waring-Welfare Road in west-central Kendall County, in the U.S. state of Texas.

[4] His brother Carl Philipp was justice of the peace, postmaster, county commissioner, and tax assessor.

The general store was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1996, Marker number 382.

Severe weather conditions, complicated by an infestation of boll weevils, caused a steady decline in the population.

[9] German pioneer and founder of Sisterdale, Nicolaus Zink, retired to Welfare and died there in 1887.