Although, in Australia we also have universal welfare as well. Most people who have to beg here have some sort of other thing going on than "no money". Usually a drug and alcohol problem. I'm unemployed in Australia, and I get about the same as what an American would get for a 40 hour work week on minimum wage (after factoring in that they pay ~30% of unemployed people's rent on top of the other money). Look, in Melbourne, you can be the laziest asshole on the planet, and they pay you ~$650 a fortnight for that. And that's just the regular lazy person pay rate. If you're disabled, an alcoholic, drug addict or otherwise deem unfit to work, you can go on the disability pension, which pays quite a bit more. I'm pretty certain anyone far gone enough to need to beg here qualifies for the pension.
What's actually happening, is that drug addicts burn through their ~$600-700 worth of fortnightly payments in a few days of partying, then they hit everyone else up for money to last them the rest of the two weeks until the next payment. So, no, "normal" people shouldn't have to beg here, unlike countries with no financial safety net. After living in Redfern (in Sydney) for a while, I started to lose sympathy. Lots of people there whom I knew were on pensions were always begging me for my unemployment check, which was less than they get. Yeah, "no money" my arse, you fuckers ... I have no money because you guys sponge it off me.