You can always run a regression back to a point where a person has a truly harder time than he should when viewed in isolation. However, organizing society around those instances is no way to organize society.

A healthy society organizes around the principles that the individual, the family, the friends, and the community (the church) help those who have the worst of dire conditions. Since the last several decades has been seeing drastic fall in this idea, some people find themselves knocked down with a harder time of getting back up than they otherwise would. The government attempting to solve this problem has just made things worse. The real solution is probably to return to what humans are entirely evolved for: championing the family and championing the religion and its community.