I am all for assistance to those who are truly needy.
When I was a kid we had neighbors who had four kids. He was an auto mechanic and she was a homemaker. He was killed on the job during a brutal robbery. She was a career homemaker with no marketable skills and a high-school education. She was forced to rely on help, at least for awhile.
She has passed away, and her adult children are not on assistance.
And that is exactly how public assistance is supposed to work. No one begrudges this kind of help. The problem, of course, lies with those who settle for life on the dole and pass the disease along to their kids. It’s the ancient problem of the deserving vs. the undeserving poor.