Why are single childless people often excluded from welfare government assistance?

[Cherrylicious]

It seems as if the only way you can be eligible to receive any sort of additional monetary government assistance is to have one or multiple children, be disabled or pregnant as of single childless people do not struggle financially or face any difficult hardships.

It seems as if the welfare system only caters to people with children as if they are more important because they not only receive additional money in food stamps or cash assistance, but they also receive free or cheap housing (section eight) and even free health insurance, Medicaid and free childcare and a lot of people like to make it seems as if single childless people are more than likely to take advantage of the welfare system where is from what I've witnessed, it was more so families with children that will abuse the system more because a lot of them would spend their welfare funds on useless unnecessary miscellaneous unimportant things that are for the child/children.

But why is it that single childless people get treated as if our lives are easier and are more likely to accomplish more and succeed Financial stability versus a family with children?

[loveslongnails]

TANF, or "Transitional Assistance for Needy Families", otherwise known as welfare, is specifically designed to help poor kids. It's like a "bring your parents along" kind of program. If you're below, I believe, 160% of the poverty line, you're eligible for a number of things like food stamps and Medicaid, but the latter depends on what state you live in.

The states that have NOT elected the Expanded Adult Medicaid option will not provide that benefit. Those states are:

1. Alabama 2. Florida 3. Georgia 4. Kansas 5. Mississippi 6. North Carolina
7. South Carolina 8. South Dakota 9. Tennessee 10. Texas
11. Wisconsin (has expanded to 100 percent of FPL) 12. Wyoming

Notice a pattern? All of those states are either a supermajority, a total majority, or 2/3's majority of the legislature, controlled by Republicans. Those are the states with the 6 week or restrictive abortion ban. So now you're forced to carry to term if you can't afford to go out of state, IF they haven't made that a crime as well, and then you're eligible for TANF if you need it.

Yet it's those very same states who scream about "welfare mothers having more kids so they can get more money". Ironic, isn't it, that those same states who believe they're protecting the unborn are fine with letting them BE born into poverty and low income 75% of the time, but they reject assistance for single poor people as well as added assistance for single moms OR dads, or families covered by TANF.

[BoopBoopBeep]

Well, objectively your life IS easier. You can work whatever shifts you want and not have to go pick up/take care of a kid. That may be because you make better life choices, but there's a hungry kid at home or there isn't. You're not getting paid for one who isn't there.

[Cherrylicious]

Just because a person has no children doesn't make their life "easier" and the reason I noticed because I am one of these childish people facing very Financial hardships that I am unable to receive any sort of additional help from the government because I have no children. I don't understand what makes other think that ALL people without children walk down "Easy Street Avenue" what's absolutely no problems nor difficult obstacles that is nearly impossible to come by everyone who needs help should have it childless or not that's my point.

[BoopBoopBeep]

If you take yourself, and your exact self, cloned, but who also has a child, yes, your life is easier than the clone with the child. Nobody said you walk down easy street. You can come up with a thousand different variables on a thousand different people but the government doesn't care because it doesn't have time to process that. So society mandates particular variables to devote the time and energy in it's limited form to address. Bureaucracies have to function by guidelines or crawl to a halt.

What variables should be looked at for the state to determine you are more deserving of the limited resources available (because all aid is paid for by the redistribution of wealth through taxes... to wit... ist costs money) than the person with a child?

Honest question, I'm not trying to be a smart butt.

[exitseven]

Taxpayers are reluctant to give money for people just to stay home and watch Netflix. Yet democrat politicians need it to buy votes so they claim it is "for the children" . That way when Republicans object to this waste they are labelled "racist" or "baby killers"

[Guardian45]

Yes, the system is "rigged" against childless single people. It ALWAYS has been and ALWAYS will be! You are the laborforce our economy is built on!

Do you hate it? Do you want to change it? Either start a business and become filthy rich, or get pregnant, married or not!

Sadly, otherwise, get to work and stop complaining! They aren't and won't be listening!

[Dargil]

Why are single childless people entitled to welfare government assistance; especially when jobs are a dime a dozen?

[Cherrylicious]

For the same reason families with children are entitled to government assistance that they are more likely to take full advantage of despite jobs being a dime a dozen" because we all need it.

[Dargil]

Seems like children are the key. Why should a freeloader get taxpayer money when they can earn their own?

[OddBeMe]

Because we’re smarter. Seriously, usually childless are doing better economically. I get just as frustrated when parents get the child tax credit. But then I can leave the house on my home any damn time I want. :)

[gorydetails]

Why don’t single childless people work to make enough money so they’re not on the public dole?

[Cherrylicious]

At this point your generalizing because not every single childless person can afford to make "enough" money according to your definition of financial stability because everyone has a different situation and just because a person has no children, it doesn't always make them more accessible to additional slave labor we are humans not fucking machines.

[gorydetails]

If you have a HS diploma and work 40 hrs a week, you should be making enough to be off public assistance.

[Cherrylicious]

And what if all of your monthly bills total up to over $3,000 per month🤔 no one ever takes that into consideration.

[gorydetails]

What is that person running up $3k in bills a month for? That’s about the average teacher’s salary, so become a teacher.