Then you find the benefits paid by all these programs, determine the expenditure per beneficiary and set one flat basic payout per week to all who qualify. You

Then you find the benefits paid by all these programs, determine the expenditure per beneficiary and set one flat basic payout per week to all who qualify. You toss all these other assistance programs in the trash. One central agency administers the money. EBT cards could be administered separately from the basic income card. The rules would be simple, the cards are usable wherever debit and credit cards are. All government agencies would be required to accept them as well. There are so many aid programs just in the US alone I bet no one can find them all, even at the Federal level the number of programs which partially if not wholly overlap is costly. Then throw in state ones which do essentially the same and we waste an incredible amount on money in just administration. One way to solve that duplicate effort, get the feds out or get the states out. One agency should be able to administer it all.