Well, at least you got back some of what you paid in. Guess Bob doesn't have any common sense to stock the pantry with regular food to tide them over when Bob loses the new job or to throw that extra $ into next month's rent.
I had a friend who was on food stamps for a very short while. The husband got a job like a month or two into the program but the welfare office wouldn't take them off until around the 6 mo. mark. Or so she claimed. She is also on SSI and is more physically fit than I am. Claims she can't work but drives to the city 2-3 times a week to shop and visit. Visits and shops locally on the other days of the week. Goes to the pool every other day. Has a garden and works with kids. I have to plan it out just to do simple daily chores so they don't kill me. Notice the past tense in "had" a friend. Makes me angry thinking about it. That's another government program that is being scammed big time.
Yes - they have gone by the wayside as friends as well. The guy was an okay worker and I would hire him for some help. Until I found him sitting and playing some game on his phone while the work I gave him to do wasn’t finished and we were in a time crunch. (He was 29 at the time- father of three kids - playing games!)