Two examples:
1. I have a friend that is on welfare, mostly because he is really physically not able to do much. My son ran a company that my friend could manage (and he has that experience). So I got them together. It was later in the season so here was not much more work to go but the concern was he needed to make so much to be able to not have to get his welfare money. Since it was the end of season he would not be able to afford things because welfare would cut him off and he wouldn't make enough to last until the next season. According to V, there is something broken in welfare. I agree.
2. I worked with a guy back in the mid 80s so this is a long time ago. He had a wife and a kid and wanted to just do the menial work he did for this plastering company in Phoenix. Why? If he made more, he would go off of welfare. There was more to be made but he didn't want it.
Welfare does not encourage work at all. That is one of the bad things about it.
mspart