Corruption and abuse of benefits lacks generalizability? Why would anyone work for the minimum wage in the current environment when they can make more money with section 8 and disability?

(minimum wage = $15USD x40 x4 = $2400 a month before taxes)

A disability payment will be around $1000, and one third of that will be taken for your free rent. As a side benefit you do not need to work at all.

The idea here is this that this sorta thing actively hurts the very people that deserve to be helped -- the honest working poor. Instead the benefits go to the people who can work the system, who have practiced it over their entire lives, with some even taking informal but advanced classes at the county jail about these things.