The whole story is obviously a fabrication. Not many people are working it that hard. But there are a lot of people doing some of it.
I know a man who was married to a blind woman who got a divorce so she could collect benefits, medical care etc. . I have been told that lots of people with teenage kids are looking at cost of college and saying that they might as well not work more, or have a second family income, because it will just make college more expensive. I am morally neutral on these two.