Why is a lot of young people Scamming and frauding welfare or Ssa to get SSi?

i mean i know young people that's young around my age frauding and scamming the system to get ssi. they claimed that there no jobs that is hiring, and the jobs that were hiring you needed exp. so that was there last resort to survive was to fraud for ssi or welfare. Do you think its right i mean no one wants to be homeless or starve to death or not have no money to support yourself?