If you are so privileged that you can’t understand how it would feel to be glad receive fsm yet feel your pride slightly dented then you need to try harder. The OP is here explaining it to you and you can bet the majority of people who recieve fsm feel the same but aren’t saying it
I hope they don't.
The vouchers were fucked up over lock down. A couple of my friends were waiting weeks for what they were owed. There was no minimum standard set for home learning meaning many kids were denied any kind of meaningful learning over the weeks everyone was off. Many children who should have been im school ( weren't sone SN meant to stay open ? Didn't get to go .
Being given what you are entitled to , when you were entitled to it should not be something to be surprised or even humbled abou and definitely not embarrassed either.
Its a really sorry state of affairs if expectations have been shifted to such a low point that this , something that should reasonably be expected, is the cause of confusion or embarasnent.
The wrong people are being made to feel in the wrong here.
Let's hope that when you see what public money gets spent on, the pictured of the politicians asleep in meetings, and the fact that local businesses have had to step in where feeding kids was voted against.. that people stop worrying about taking the help.
You are raising children. The toughest most full on job ever, unpaid and often unsupported, and with chikd maintenance systems set up to allow the resident parent to receive basically nothing if the father is crafty enough, you have earned every penny of what you receive. And more.