That's me. I have no car, no tv, use my landlady's internet and a little laptop from my school (I'm a teacher) and that is IT. My cellphone is an old-school snap-shut model from several years ago. But a huge chunk of my pay disappears every month into the tax hole to keep people like this living more comfortably than I am. (I live in Los Angeles.) My rent is exhorbitant because, being a woman alone, I choose to live as far from the recipients of these programs as possible, for my own safety, and ... well it just doesn't seem quite right to me. And yes, I resent it more every year.
God bless you for your inner strength and sense of responsibility....I'll say a prayer that it is rewarded in ways you cannot imagine.