Benefit is a very broad word. Maybe you don't benefit financially, but you benefit in other ways. It's rather reductionist to assume that the only people who will support UBI will benefit financially from it.
Means tested welfare is a problem because it actively disincentives working by reducing or removing benefits as you increase income from work. It effectively reduces your hourly wage. Trading 40 hours of your time a week for work, when the effective wage of that work is about half the minimum wage, is a pretty poor tradeoff. It creates a benefit trap.
UBI has none of that. Sure, the payment from UBI is eventually matched by tax payments, but there's no sharp threshold. (Of course, UBI has to be pared with a sane progressive tax structure which doesn't also provide sharp discontinuities in tax).
Means tested welfare is a problem because it actively disincentives working by reducing or removing benefits as you increase income from work. It effectively reduces your hourly wage. Trading 40 hours of your time a week for work, when the effective wage of that work is about half the minimum wage, is a pretty poor tradeoff. It creates a benefit trap.
UBI has none of that. Sure, the payment from UBI is eventually matched by tax payments, but there's no sharp threshold. (Of course, UBI has to be pared with a sane progressive tax structure which doesn't also provide sharp discontinuities in tax).