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thealchemistdev | 2 years ago
> ... Throughout the film, Miss Kabak, a social worker, visits Claudine at her home and asks her if she is employed and if she is dating anyone. Claudine always claims to be unemployed and single, to make sure to get the maximum amount of benefits, which she desperately needs. If Claudine has a job or dates anyone and receives gifts from her boyfriend, the social worker has to deduct any money or gifts from her benefits, forcing Claudine to lie.
This movie was released in 1974. Though fiction, it's one of the examples used when people say that when government gets involved ($$$), it moves slow and breaks things for a long time.
I think people will always try to game/pervert a system, and unfortunately we all will have to suffer the consequences. For now.
hackeraccount|2 years ago
I know someone playing this sort of game. She's collecting benefits even though she's living with her children's father; indeed he's supporting her and the children.
Whatever I may think of this the children are in a stable 2 parent family. Other then having a mother whose ethics are (again in my view) open to question I don't think the children are any worse off then comparable children who's parents are married and not receiving any sort of assistance.
As odd as it sounds the real trouble is for children who are genuinely - being raised by a single mother - in the situation.