In England you are not allowed to not recieve state money, basically. Taxes are at punitive levels, and then you have to apply for various “credits” to get money back. Most people can’t make ends meet without the money they receive from the state. In this case, they will certainly be getting their child tax credit, over 600 pounds a month for a family that size.
That’s certainly true to an extent (I live in the UK and I get bupkis, being in all ways a ‘donor’)
But yes, a family of this size will be getting 300+ USD a week as “assistance”. Thinking of it as “getting some money back from the oppressive Overlord government” is actually pretty fair.
At 300 USD a week they are basically getting my tax receipts, and - seeing them - I am glad of it. It’s the other daft schemes of the UK govt which I don’t want to pay for: AGW, various NGOs, free housing for Muslim Terrorists and so on.