and on welfare at the end of her life.

You are just repeating what others have stated online without looking into this claim yourself.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ayn-rand-social-security/

She took Social Security and Medicare benefits. She also paid into those. She also paid taxes.

It is morally defensible for those who decry publicly-funded scholarships, Social Security benefits,

and unemployment insurance to turn around and accept them, Rand argued, because the government

had taken money from them by force (via taxes). There’s only one catch: the recipient must regard the

receipt of said benefits as restitution, not a social entitlement.

If she paid into Social Security and Medicare and paid taxes then what is the issue? The paragraph above states

that she did not believe her actions to be hypocrisy because she had paid taxes.