Well I live from welfare benefits and I can assure you there's no way I'm going to be able to live that expensive from... What's it... 1200 dollars a month.
Because of the province I live in I can buy a semi-attached house with a lot of help from my parents and a mortgage. But that's just my luck.
Eitherway, they do monitor these benefits very closely here. It's tough. Sometimes there's a thin line between being able to work and not being able to work. Especially for cases like me. At first glance I seem perfectly 'normal', but still...
Eitherway, it's a risky thing to decide who can has a benefit or not. But listening to your story I think there should indeed be some stricter rules there. I am just so afraid for the lives of the people who's need for such a benefit gets misjudged