62 richest people has as much money as poorest 3.5 billion humans

[MTZehvor]

Aeolus451 said:

MTZehvor said:

It's not quite as simple as that; there are fairly strict guidelines for receiving a hardship extension past five years. You must either be employed for at least 32 hours a week, meet the Family Violence Option Criteria, or have child welfare issues and be actively working to resolve them. Additionally, the statistics I mentioned earlier take this into account. Regardless of why they're off, 90% are still off within 5 years, and I'd imagine the number is higher for welfare as a whole.

 

The criteria a person has to meet to get the extension is determined by each state. There's no federal guidelines other than a person having to used up the 60 months federal time limit to be able to apply for it. The only reason why "90%" or even a 100% are off of it is because of the time limit but they can just easily get the extension. 

The requirements I mentioned are applicable in nearly every state. The extensions are by no means "easy" to get. If they were, then we would expect to see far more people staying on for more than five years at a time, assuming your assumptions about people simply being lazy and choosing to stay on welfare are correct.