The obvious thing to happen next cycle from instituting such rules: the benefits program's dedicated budget gets adjusted down by the expected value of forfeitures.
Maybe instead any money collected civil asset forfeiture should be required to be sent to the Federal Reserve where it is destroyed. That should prevent any of these sorts of perverse incentives.
For money that could work. For other assets (e.g. art, anything that has an environmental cost to create it) society may benefit from them being preserved. I guess you could still auction them off and burn the money.
