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These benefits are inaccessible without a long trip through some really Byzantine application processes where nobody is actually incentivized to help you. These
by jschwartzi 9y ago
These benefits are inaccessible without a long trip through some really Byzantine application processes where nobody is actually incentivized to help you. These processes ostensibly exist to block freeloaders but they also serve to prevent the needy from accessing the resource too.
- WalterSear 9y agoIt also exists to give indolent, illiterate, innumerate people 'do-good' jobs to get entrenched in, and suck up all the resources, with no accountability. It's one of the things that has befallen SF, where an industry funded by the city to the tune of a quarter of a billion dollars a year, fails to keep a few thousand people off the street. http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/06/27/despite-241-million-budget-sf-still-struggles-with-homelessness/ http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/06/27/despite-241-mill... http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/City-audit-finds-poor-accounting-at-SF-nonprofit-12114309.php http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/City-audit-finds-... http://www.sfchronicle.com/aboutsfgate/article/Despite-money-and-work-homelessness-in-SF-as-bad-11242946.php http://www.sfchronicle.com/aboutsfgate/article/Despite-money...
- guihvvv 9y agoI readily critize our grotesque engorged bureaucracy, but getting food stamps isn't difficult, as exibited by the 40+ million people who take advantage of them, and by personal anecdotal evidence.
- dbingham 9y agoI think it depends on where you are and how used to using bureaucracy you are. I know people who really struggled to wend their way through the bureaucracy that protects food stamps in order to get them.
- dictum 9y agoIt's also self-selecting: if you're good at navigating bureaucracy, you most likely won't be homeless.