[Domenic_S]

No.

I personally applied for - and received - state disability payments when I was diagnosed with cancer. I was barely an adult and had no financial means to speak of.

[Zimahl]

You immediately say 'no' but then admit that it was a state disability payment. So was it Federal SSI or some state program? From what I can tell here are the only states with those programs: California, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Hawaii.

[Domenic_S]

The poster above me added the stuff about state programs in an edit, which he pointed out.

All you're saying is that state programs work, which is a right/libertarian position and probably not what you're going for.