Here's a radical idea.
Eliminate welfare, foodstamps, child support, section 8, and virtually all social service programs which have huge bureacratic budgets that siphon of the tax funds that fund them to pay for the salaries of middle-class workers who make sure too many funds don't get distributed to the people who need them.

Replace this entire system with a negative income tax. This is how it would work. You file your taxes on April 15th, just like you do now. If your income is below a certain point, you get a check to make up the difference. The program is administered through the existing agency of the IRS which can cut checks as easily as it can submit bills.

The cost-savings would be huge!! By eliminating the oversite bureacracies, we could net an additional 40% or more of our money which could be passed on to the people who need it.

George McGovern had the negative income tax as part of his platform in 1972. However, the first person I know who proposed this was Richard Nixon!! (he didnt stand by it very long).

We dont have any objection to a widow with children receiving social security benefits, but we get all uptight about her when she is receiving welfare benefits, even when she left an abusive husband before applying for benefits.

Likewise, the whole child support collection system is too expensive to operate. We would save so much money if we just directly paid poor mothers rather than to go out and try to collect from the absent parent.