What state are you in? I’d be very surprised if the yearly welfare benefits were over 60k.
Florida and they are. They are single women with a whole bunch of kids. They get so much per kid and they have multiple fathers who are not living with them.
It’s possible.
It’s been a long time since I added up the monetary benefits of welfare. Back in about 1987 we were living in an apartment complex that had gone Section 8. A neighbor was complaining to us about how poor she was. I broke out my calculator. I added up her Aid to Dependant Children, rent subsidy (very sizable), food stamps and free food, Medicaid and a couple other things I can’t remember. I omitted all the help she was getting from churches and other charities she collected because of being on welfare.
She had more income than the construction workers I knew. It didn’t do any good, she still believed she was “poor” because she only received a few hundred dollars a month cash - and she was on welfare so she had to be poor.