Most homeless spend a lot of time behind bars while going through the very long process to get Social Security Disability or SSI benefits. The irony is that after most homeless people finally get approved for Disability, their conditions always improve to such a significant extent health-wise(despite being older and in much reduced physical and mental shape after the long ordeal), once they get their monthly check, that they immediately want to go to work.
They want a job. But there is a catch.
The catch is that they will looses their hard-fought Disability benefits (essentially for years at least) and they have an immense fear of falling down on their luck again without any safety net whatsoever.
This is the situation in the United States of America.
And this is why we need a base dividend\stipend that is paid to a person with no strings, no conditions. Let them keep what they earn at least until they make enough to start paying taxes.
Same for unemployment, snap, disability, social security -- a living wage dividend\stipend. One department shopping.
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