Was out of work for awhile some years ago. After days of paper work and many weeks of delays I got 200 to help a family of 5.

A few months later I got a letter asking me to pay it pay it back.

Later I got very badly injured. Like brain damage level. Got laughed At when applying for disability. Apparently if you have a stroke, then a desk job is fine, since you just need to sit there.

There is a narrow range between deathly ill and dead that you can obtain assistance.

I'm very sorry to hear all the troubles you've been facing. I will soon be deciding where I want to move and this sounds like a state I should avoid. Was that in Washington?

Washington is similarly troubled. As I hear it from my friends, it was not this bad years ago in Washington and Florida. These must be resent previously unnoticed incompetencies. (Pardon for the word "incompetencies" may be too harsh.). New Jersey unemployment claims were almost this bad 20 years ago.

I am one of them who is in process proving identity for a few months now.

No. Florida. Good economic freedom. No safety net.

Disability was private company though.

California just as bad.

1.4 million (same number of people) cut off on January 1 because needed to prove their identity.

California agency backing off on this, probably because of intense human cost of that many.

In other places these things aren't treated so lightly.

Netherlands government (Prime Minister and cabinet) recently resigned over a scandal where about 40,000 people in a country of 17 million, so like 800,000 in proportion in USA, were kicked off family benefits and accused of fraud, often for BS like forgetting to sign a document.

Reports are saying the state auditor and not ESD was at fault.

This is accurate, and my comment criticizing the ESD is generally irrelevant to the topic at hand. However, I'm not retracting it, because it's also accurate, and not being at fault for this one doesn't excuse the absolute shambles they've been in for the past year.