According to Cheng, there is concrete evidence that the longer low-income households stay in the social welfare system, the less likely it is that they will ever achieve economic independence and the more likely that they will come to view relying on welfare benefits as a normal lifestyle.
鄭麗珍表示，一些實證資料顯示，低收入戶留在社會救助系統中越久，走向經濟自立的可能性越低，甚至視依賴社會救助的補助為一種理所當然的生活方式。