Because you actually need to deliver proof of work for unemployment benefits.
But I was asking about Social Security, which is not an unemployment benefit. You just get it for being old enough, provided you worked when you were young. If you stole an old person's identity, it should be just as easy to capture their stream of benefits as it would be to capture someone's UBI.
I also don't see why it requires any more of a privacy invasion than current benefits. Again, all you'd have to show is identity, as opposed to identity plus other personal information, which is required for current conditional benefits.
But I was asking about Social Security, which is not an unemployment benefit. You just get it for being old enough, provided you worked when you were young. If you stole an old person's identity, it should be just as easy to capture their stream of benefits as it would be to capture someone's UBI.
I also don't see why it requires any more of a privacy invasion than current benefits. Again, all you'd have to show is identity, as opposed to identity plus other personal information, which is required for current conditional benefits.