Welfare versus Work: with public assistance, medical care for all, housing, free lunch for kids, WIC, food stamps, government pays about $40,000 to help a family of 4. Does that level of generosity discourage the working poor from working?
I don’t know where you live, but if you get one of those programs, it is deducted from the others, not added onto it. My child has a pretty catastrophic disease, and when she got sick, the health insurance company kept raising the rates to try to force my husband’s company to dump us. The company didn’t dump us, and that is a rarity among kids with cancer, but they had to switch to a different policy with extremely high copays, so we got a medical card to pay the copays. We get a little Social Security with it. If we were to get food stamps, that would be deducted from the Social Security and we would get less, not more. What does discourage the poor from working is that once you get on one of those programs, it is extremely hard to get off. If I started working, my child would no longer be able to have follow-up care for her cancer, which would be extremely irresponsible for me to do as a parent. There is no gray area with government programs that says “this child is uninsurable and n
It does in a way but WIC is available to even working middle class as is free lunch to kids and housing. People assume that if you are on “assistance” you don’t work and that is not true. With food stamps you either work, actively look for a job (and prove it) or you don’t get stamps. Cash benefits are 2 year lifetime maximum and then at the most you get $300. That is not a lot to live on. It’s not as simple as it sounds and not everyone who applies or wants assistance gets it. They put a person thru Hel* to get the few benefits they have. Then they Punish them for working. They make $10 and their rent goes up, food stamps down, etc. They end up worse off working.
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