It’s even worse that in the US, Social Security disability is focused mainly on physical disabilities and randomly excludes certain social/mental imparements due to a patchwork of dumb laws. As such, people in social services are often unilaterally-declared (Abled-Bodied Adult Without Dependents) ABAWD, and have their food (SNAP) and other benefits withdrawn without mandatory participation in programs that basically ignore and discount the reasons why they got there in the first place. In California, for example, SNAP goes away for ABAWD’s for 9 months out of the year beginning September 1, 2018. IOW, penniless homeless people are having their food benefits cut off for most of the year if they’re randomly assigned this status.
This is what “falling between the cracks” looks like.