Tell me about it! I wasn't on it myself, but a sister in my church signed up for assistance for her children, when her deadbeat husband decided to move for the umpteenth time and she refused to uproot the kids yet again... the case worker was flabbergasted that she didn't plan on divorcing him, and urged her to reconsider. He pointed out the great welfare benefits that she could only get if she had no husband. It's a disease.
Anyhow, the food stamps are worth a lot. There is the medical. The cash for two adults was 200 dollars a month. They do not help with utilities or rent unless it is at the eviction or turn off stage.
There is subsidized housing, of course. I knew an older fellow in upstate NY who got somewhere in the neighborhood of $600/mo in food stamps alone. He was living with a woman, also on welfare, and they refused to marry because it would cut their benefits. (I don't remember if $600 was their combined total, or only his share.) He ate much better than I ever did, I can tell you that.
600 dollars a month is what they gave us also. On these threads people complain that those with food stamps buy steaks. That's why. Nearly every bit of food stamps we had was used to stock up on sale items. Sometimes those sale items were steak. Two children later we are now a family of seven and our food budget is only 400 dollars. I have to talk myself into that when I hear of families with a 50 dollar a week food budget and a bazillion kids. LOL.