Food Stamps From the Government

Government benefit programs are an essential part of out life in America. They provide aid to those who do not have the resources to provide for themselves and that is more important than we might think. These programs give opportunities to people who otherwise would be in perilous situations. Food stamps and Medicare benefits may be helping a single father feed his family while he looks for a job. WIC, a program for mothers and their newborns, helps buy formula and child care essentials for a mother who may not have the financial stability that others have to raise her child. All of these programs have one thing in common they give to those who need help. They provide and support those who are trying to better themselves for their families or future families and they give opportunities to those who may need just that to become a successful businessperson.

Benefit programs give aid to students who are trying to complete or start their degrees for a better future. Scholarships, loan opportunities, work-study, and grants are all vital to higher education. They assure that anyone in need of financial assistance with the desire to attend or further their education at a secondary educational facility gets the opportunity to do so. With this opportunity students are assure their productive value as a working member in the American society gets perpetuated to themselves and their descendants. These opportunities invoke a national pride, which stems from the ability to achieve our unalienable rights because of the support of the government benefit programs.

All of these programs combined together make it possible for those in need to start fresh and collect themselves into some who can succeed in life. Throughout the years of constant revision to these programs they have become a great system with only a few kinks in the line. To better these programs I believe that at some point there must be a reevaluation of the recipients eligibility with proof and investigation to continue receiving the funding so as not to abuse the system. At which point the recipient is deemed ineligible for the program there should be installed a cutoff point or redirection of the recipient’s use of the program funding.

Installing a cutoff and full reevaluation would not be caused by the programs willingness to provide but by the people who are abusing the program and its funding. If the government benefit programs evaluated their beneficiaries after a certain amount of time they could perhaps cut back on their support for someone who has managed to find a job and those funds could go to someone else who is truly in need or the evaluation would provide evidence so as to keep supporting those who truly need the funding. These evaluations would also stop the abuse of the system by ruling out those who remain unemployed just to keep the benefits. Government benefit programs are an irreplaceable part of American society now and with just a few revisions they could become nearly perfect.