Should there be fewer or more restrictions on current welfare benefits?

Fewer, and ensure benefits go to those that need it most

Fewer, current benefits do not provide enough support

More

More, reform the system so that it supplements, rather than replaces, a working income

More, and deny benefits to immigrants

Fewer, but deny benefits to llegal immigrants

Welfare makes individuals more dependent on the government, rather than self and community

More, but welfare should be ended, and instead the federal government should fund and support local private charities and nonprofits

Welfare should be ended, and instead the federal government should fund and support local private charities and nonprofits

Too many fakers. We need to reform the system to root out fakers and immigrant non-citizens and those trying to avoid work and ensure that legal citizens who are genuinely trying to find work but can't receive welfare. So right now, I lean towards more. But whatever ensures reform sometimes.

Entitlement expenditures must be reduced but either by capping total allocations or by across-the-board reductions of the number of people who qualify, not through subjecting recipients to even more red tape.

More, and eliminate illegally resident aliens from benefits.

cut all welfare

Welfare should be abolished entirely and replaced by voluntary charity.

Abolish the current welfare system and replace it with universal basic income.

Deny benefits for single parents

Regardless, reform the system so that it rewards, not penalizes, getting a job.

More, but I would prefer to end all social welfare programs

The federal government should not be providing welfare benefits. This should be a State or Private issue.

Eliminate all existing welfare programs and replace them with a monthly income stipend for all citizen households

More. We should raise the minimum wage to a beginner's living wage and only provide welfare to those who are incapable of working and for up to 6 months in between jobs. People with repairable conditions should be actively getting treatment and doing all that they can to support themselves. The government should find ways besides direct funding from the government to help people get treatment when they can't afford it. For example, they can ask people to donate to charity, do crowdsourcing and crowdfunding, and hire a paid or unpaid (volunteer) worker to find ways to make money for the person, such as through GoFundMe.

Abolish welfare, un-ban high density public housing construction and provide both universal healthcare and a small UBI to all citizens as a dividend of investment on their providing to our prosperity

lower restrictions on lower and middle class but increase the restrictions on high class

Fewer, there should be no restrictions at all (this is called a UBI)

More, as long as those that truly need it do get it.

More, but I’d prefer that the welfare system be abolished

More, but I’d prefer that the welfare system be abolished.

More, but I’d prefer the welfare system be abolished.

The whole system needs revamping so that people with actual disability get the help they need to get off welfare, and so that the paltry amount paid actually provides value.

Add more benefits for all types of people and situations

More, but move towards a UBI instead

eliminate welfare and just offer a basic income

More, but institute a universal basic income

Give it to people that actually need it. These systems should not be abused.

We don't need less or more benefits or restrictions, just correctly directed benefits. Any benefit given by the federal government should be precise. An example: Food stamps should be more like WIC, as some food stamps are used to buy junk food, instead of the much needed fruits, vegetables, grains, and meats needed.

I just feel like there should be benefits for those who need it.

A more targeted reform of the system and oversight of who and how benefits are resolved, favoring supporting Women and Children and families and isolated elderly persons. De-incentivizing single healthy male youth joblessness. Supporting all who have been classed out of careers they were trained for in their youth, by our ever changing and advancing society.

I don't have enough information at the moment to create my own opinon.

More, cap benefits so no one leaches off welfare forever; increase benefits for the elderly and disabled; remove and deny immigrants, especially illegal immgrants, from welfare programs; make it supplemental rather than a replacement for work income.

Get rid of the current welfare system and replace it with a Negative Income Tax.

Benefits per capita should be increased but holes in the existing system must be plugged simultaneously (e.g. claiming ration for dead persons, multiple ration cards etc.)

Regardless, implement a Negative Income Tax.

More restrictions, able-bodied people should not be able to receive welfare.

Fewer, and abolish currency

Fewer, replace welfare with UBI

More, and the goal should be to eliminate all government welfare.

Fewer, Welfare should be replaced with more specific programs.

More, and replace welfare with a negative income tax

Only give it to those who actually need it.