It's not something that came up when we put together our report, but it's something that comes up almost every time we look at specific government programs. The reason generally tends to be that in government, every department wants to have a level of certainty. When they're designing a program, they want to ensure that the recipients are the intended recipients and that nothing goes wrong once the money is out the door. They tend to have an application process that screens out as much as possible applicants who are not eligible.
Then they tend to have accountability issues. They want to know what was achieved with the money they provided. It tends to be burdensome for the applicants. That's not specific to the federal government. It's very common to other levels of government. It's a struggle between giving money in a seamless and efficient way but also ensuring that the money is not wasted on ineligible recipients and there's some accountability as to what the money was used for so that the government can account for that and get results.