“They also have a greater sense of self-determination when they are trusted with the resources they need to build a better life.”
A greater sense of self-determination when they rely on handouts guaranteed to make them permanently non-self-determinative. Orwell lives, indeed.
Many "beneficiaries" don't grasp that when the government pays for your housing (Section 8), pays for your healthcare (Medicaid), pays for your food (EBT cards); and now gives you cash (guaranteed income payments), you are still a slave.
They've merely swapped the master in the big house for the government master in the state house.
Self-determination only comes from self-reliance.