You pay taxes. You should take what the government gives you in return. I suppose there are many opinions here, but I have plenty of friends who refuse to take unemployment insurance, when they've paid into it for years (sometimes decades).
There's lots we could have spent the money on, but we didn't need it - we've had to go without meals before, this wasn't that.
I think one can easily justify taking the money when you don't need it. Possibly the most moral action would have been to take it and help people who couldn't get the help and really needed.
We've had no problem taking charity, still most of the kids clothes are hand-me-downs from other families; and I don't see income support as charity per se, and we take income support of other types not related to being jobless.
The "you've paid in" argument would probably not be on our side either.
Maybe that fleshes things out anecdotally.