At first I just didn't want the hassle of telling them everything for a few hundred dollars, but later, President Trump has stirred the economy in such a way, we pick up a few bucks here and there and my monthly SS check (which always WAS (barely) sufficient) is now not so uncomfortable.
As a disclaimer, we live, by choice, frugally making things last and making do and God seems to get his tithe (with faith promise missions) every month.
Essentially .... we don't need food stamps.
We live totally on one check, my VA disability. My wife had to leave her good job due to strokes, vision and now an amputation. I don’t what we’d do if anything ever happened.