The difference is that from an operational standpoint just cutting them a check each month is far cheaper.
Programs like Section 8 and Food Stamps employ thousands of teet-sucking bureaucrats just to make the wheels go round.
Cut to the chase with a direct cash payment and you get to lay them all off.
Ideal world we wouldn’t be doing ANY welfare....but you KNOW that’s not gonna happen.
Every time I try to imagine those who work for state unemployment offices across the country, having to file for unemployment, the intrusive thought of one hand clapping always distracts me.