That's kinda' wishy-washy isn't it?
No.
It is, however, annoying, as so many middle-of-the-road answer are, but it's not wishy washy, it's just a seeking of balancing in between the extremes.
Conservatives are sometimes accused of making it really hard for many people to get government benefits, in the interest of avoiding a small amount of fraud, waste or abuse. Liberals (apparently proudly, per Moke's post), seems like would rather default in giving them to just about everyone who performs the slightest thing that might be called a Request - making it super super easy, in order to avoid some deserving person starving to death.
Those are two extremes. As per the usual in life, they both seem both undesirable and unnecessary.
Make it a serious process with as much validation as possible as to the person's needs. Make it neither "give it to everyone" nor "make it damn hard for everyone".
I'll tell you, I tried to get food stamps once in life during a period, my only period in 28 years of supporting a family, of being out of work for about 6 months. It was incredibly hard, and I'm a techie - I'm happy to fill out long website applications, but it was HAAAAAAAARD. Ultimately we had to go and sit for about 6-8 hours to wait for an appointment, where an old lady with a mouth shaped like a No seemed to think it was odd that I was so able bodied, and white, and yet was asking for food stamps. She wasn't very nice, is what I'm trying to say. She asked for verification of 1000 forms of ID and documentation of all kinds, and we gave them to her, then they said later they hadn't received them. We went through a nightmare of letters, phone calls, and visits. By the time we were close to either getting approved or punching someone, I said to myself to hell with it, I got a job now. I can only imagine how hard it is for a single parent or a documentation-challenged person.