One incentive to work now instead of take welfare is the infuriating ugly red tape to get it. I’d rather work than try to navigate that rat’s nest. But if a $30,000 check just showed up in my mailbox each year, I’d be sore tempted to find arrangements to make it work. See, it’s that poverty is, short of Haiti type situations, the consequences of bad behavior. Give the “poor” a “living wage” and they’ll blow it, give the “rich” the same and they’ll do just fine.
The way to make that work is that every citizen gets that check... even the billionaires. That red tape is not just painful to the citizen, it has a huge amount of overhead for the government to process.