It wouldn’t make sense. This just feeds the popular misconception that Obama came from a poor background. He likes to feed that perception when he talks about a brief time his mom was on food stamps. Any poverty on the part of Ann Dunham was pretty much voluntary.. She was a gypsy free spirit sort. Obama was very comfortably middle class...attended a pricey school and was advantaged compared to most Americans.
Look, I'm not saying it happened.
But there are a lot of middle (and upper middle) class people who receive food stamps and AFDC.
These are the two of the most abused programs in government -- after Medicare.
You wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it. But, given the Dunhams' socialist beliefs, I've no doubt they were capable of sponging off the system.