Might sound cruel but tough love is in order for the recipiants. The entitlements go back now a few generations to what many consider their birth right. This system goes agaisnt nature and has bred an entire class of victims unable to feed themselves yet still raising large families that can only be cared for with state assistance.
Now they will riot when the government check doesn't come? How about the even less fortunate that are forced to send in money to the government from their slave wages? Shouldn't they have rioted a long time ago?
I think we'd be amazed at what recipiants are capable of if they are forced to survive on their own. 75% will figure it out and stand on their own two feet, the rest will either just die off or get shot looting. If you don't work then you don't eat, simple. Time to get back to nature, the laws of nature can't be ignored forever. It may be tough but certainly no tougher than surviving in war torn Iraq or the Gaza stip.
Actually what's left of society after a culling like this would be more empowered and motivated to throw off the Zio-occupation for the betterment of all.