"Security" is always and forever a matter of securing some specific thing, against some specific risk. In other words, security reflects values - it reveals whose risk matters, and whose doesn't. For the American benefits system, risks to the system matter. Risks to people don't.
It's not just the welfare system that prioritizes its own risks against the people it exists to serve. Think of the systems used to fight drug abuse in clinical settings.
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