I am very grateful for my old farts bus pass, which I use on my frequent trips to London. I also use my old farts railcard, for which I pay, to travel to and from.
The £10 Christmas bonus on my state pension bought a nice bottle of red for Christmas Day.
The winter Avgas allowance was equally welcome and was spent doing some flying before Christmas.
Do I feel that I should forgo any of these benefits - and create some bureaucratic, administrative tangled web so to do? Absolutely not! I have paid taxes and NI for well over 40 years to merit these "benefits", so I am quite happy to accept them.
Equally, I am quite happy to be magnimous with my charitable donations without such donations being subscribed through and administered by not accepting state benefits.