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"Gamed" by whom? Do you assume poor people are all lazy, undeserving, criminal, and cheating? Have you ever accompanied a poor or disabled person to a county assistance office to see what the forms or process entails? Do you know how SNAP or WIC works?
I never said "all".
Some years back, and acquaintance of mine detailed how he gamed the system. He'd work until he met the minimum number of employed weeks to qualify for unemployment, then he'd do a lousy job so he'd get laid off. He'd then go on unemployment. Being unemployed required him to look for a job, so he'd look for a job, and flunk the job interview. When the unemployment compensation ran out, then he'd get a job again. Over and over and over.
BTW, when he was "unemployed", he'd take off-the-books jobs.
A businessman acquaintance told me how he'd found some well qualified people he wanted to hire. They said they'd take the job, but only after their unemployment compensation ran out.
The Seattle Times ran an article a couple decades ago (wish I'd saved it) where they went around interviewing people on welfare. They'd ask "what would you do if the welfare was cut off?" The answer was "get a job." They interviewed people in a car with fishing gear. "Where are you going?" "Fishing" "Don't you have jobs?" "No, we get welfare." "Wouldn't you rather have a job?" "No, we'd rather go fishing."
Sure, there are people who should be on welfare. But there are a lot of people gaming it.
Every government program designed to hand out money if specific requirements are met results in companies and individuals springing up to game it.