I remember being very hard up about 14 years ago, and trying to get food stamps. The state(IL) wanted me to do an iris scan in order to receive benefits. I had no idea what that was about, but did it because my kid needed some food.
Unfortunately, I couldn't sit still long enough to get a proper scan, and ended up not even getting help from them. Now I am so very, very thankful that I had a noisy running around kid there to keep me from getting that scan. Fuckers already have my prints, have since I was a child(thanks Mom and America's most wanted guy). That's one thing I've never, and will never, do to my kids. If I had known then what I know now, I would have had them both at home, so they would truly be sovereign.