Agreed. The momentum of welfare service providers alone would see to that, with somewhere around a million US workers having a vested interest in keeping their jobs as gatekeepers/facilitators, vs "everyone gets a check" covering what they control access to. Should UBI be enacted, the very same system would agitate to provide specialty services on top of UBI for special cases, building pretty much the same bureaucratic structure as exists now.

UBI simply redefines $0 income to a higher number functionally equal to $0.