The rent from these fields (sometimes called "Bread and Cheese Lands") was to be used to provide for the deserving poor.

这些田地（有时亦称为“面包奶酪田”）的租金收入用于供养穷人。

youdao

SOCIETIES have often distinguished between the deserving poor (afflicted by sickness or disability) and the undeserving sort (the feckless and workshy).

社会通常会区分值得帮助的穷人（他们饱受疾病或残疾折磨）和不值得帮助的穷人（这类人没有责任感而且不喜欢工作）。

youdao

Today some hold a view that the past's "deserving poor" have been replaced by families living in council houses equipped with flat-screen TVs, games consoles and regular holidays.

BBC: Beveridge report: From 'deserving poor' to 'scroungers'?

Speaking at the launch of the coalition's mid-term review, Mr Clegg said it was not helpful to "portray" proposed changes to the welfare system as pitting "the deserving poor against the undeserving poor and the in-work against the out-of-work".

BBC: Sarah Teather

It was left to welfare case-workers to distinguish the deserving from the undeserving poor.

ECONOMIST: He believes in government, so why doesn’t America? | The