DY >> it’s muttar and therefore proper.
Here is SY YD 246:21 REMA, Sefaria translation:
first, the benefits of working and learning, tell me you are not envious:
A person should not think to engage in Torah and to acquire wealth or honor with the learning, for one who ventures to think such a thought will not achieve the crown of Torah… make his Torah fixed and his work contingent, and should reduce business and engage in Torah…work all day for his livelihood if he does not have enough to eat, and the rest of the day and the night he should engage in Torah. ..great quality to generate one’s sustenance from the work of his hands …
2) scary threats, are you not afraid?
Anyone who puts in his mind occupying himself with Torah and not working, but supporting himself from tz’dakah, behold, this one desecrates the Divine name and dishonors the Torah. .. it attracts sin and he winds up robbing people.
3) now what is mutar, tell me which category you belong to below – old, sick, Rav of the city, very poor talmid haham, get [direct?] donations from sponsors, unable to provide for yourself and learn at the same time (according to most lenient of lenient opinions – use this one if you always follow lenient oipinions, of course)
an elder or a sick person [AAQ – better to be paid for Torah than get Medicaid]
some say that it is permitted even for a healthy person…
Rav of the city has an income and provisions
sage who needs it, but for a wealthy person it is prohibited.
some are more lenient, saying that it is permitted for a sage and his students to accept subsidies from those who donate ..
Nevertheless, one who is able to provide for himself well from the work of his own hands and to engage in Torah, it is a pious quality and a gift of God, but this is not the nature of all persons, for it is impossible for everyone to engage in Torah and to become wise in it and to provide for himself by himself.