Sorry, but in this case it most definitely is. Now you may argue that there are social and health benefits to having handicapped people doing useful (if ineffi

Sorry, but in this case it most definitely is. Now you may argue that there are social and health benefits to having handicapped people doing useful (if inefficient work) and that's a perfectly legitimate argument to make. But the fact of the matter is that such subsidies, while ethically or even socially positive do not have a positive ROI in financial terms, hence they are by definition a hand out.