Flint:
Work Rules: With certain exceptions, able-bodied adults between 16 and 60 years of age must register for work, accept an offer of suitable work, and take part in an employment and training program to which they will be referred by the SNAP office.
Generally,
able-bodied adults aged 18 to 50 who do not have children and are not pregnant can only get SNAP benefits for 3 months in a 3-year period unless they are working or participating in a work or workfare program. There are a few exceptions.
From here:
https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/facts
So it’s not like the majority of folks get on this stay on SNAP. The only folks who are streamlined for easy re-apply are those over 60.
Most of these programs have limits to them. The days of the welfare queen are far harder to obtain.
Back to the topic, perhaps the young have seen how it used to be done and are deciding to do it differently.
The ironic bit is that as a nation we are close to the biggest transfer of wealth ever as the boomers begin to die off in mass. The young will inherit the earth despite system the old have created.