[joeysteele]

I would be against the idea, I know a fair number of people who do think certain benefits and entitlements should be paid this way, thankfully not a majority of people I know though.

Personally,I think it would be a bad road to start to go down, if people are entitled to benefits make it that they get cash if that is how they want it.
Otherwise it stinks of a sort of control rather than an entitlement and once it began for one thing where would it end eventually.