Know it first hand. My nephew and his mother have no food by the 3rd week of the month because that's what they do. After they drink her disability payment. Which she gets for never having worked a day in her life, unless you count prostitution as employment.
A (stupid IMO) relative pays their rent and utilities every month. All they have to buy with food stamps and disability income is food and booze. And they run out of food 15-20 days into the month. A niece that goes over there now and then says they are blotto at 9 am in the morning.
PS: they are NOT blood related, thank God.