Benefit termination follows from application friction rather than actual ineligibility

Evidence

Their ineligibility was strictly a matter of difficulty or reluctance to pay the costs of remaining on the rolls until forced to do so. Meanwhile, according to an administrator, welfare centers are “overcrowded,” “noisy,” and “dirty.” — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 769

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s interest in how mundane procedural burdens silently perform the sorting that policy claims to do by merit. — connects to: Friction is displaced rather than eliminated onto the lives of the excluded — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 779; Exercising power incurs mobilization, liquidity, and application costs across three distinct stages — Walter Korpi, The Iceberg of Power below the Surface:…, 9

Broader Connections

• Friction is displaced rather than eliminated onto the lives of the excluded #expands (0.90) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 779
• Exercising power incurs mobilization, liquidity, and application costs across three distinct stages #exemplifies (0.85) — Walter Korpi, The Iceberg of Power below the Surface, 9