That is the exact reason the SS train is going over the cliff. It was a program to provide a safety net, not a pension or IRA or unemployment or resettlement awards. The joke is they want to means test it for the very workers who paid for it while sending cash to leeches who paid zip and are not even citizens.
First order of business: kick anyone who is not fullly vested off the gov teat. I am tired of welcoming bums here. There were no such handouts when my predecessors got here and we all did ok through work and earning citizenship.
SS is a paid for entitlement and not welfare.