The Mathews test has been criticized as being so open-ended as to give courts little guidance: judges are put into the position of making policy choices much as a legislator would do.

• "马修"案的标准因过分随意以及几乎没有为法院提供任何指导而受到批评：法官被置于作出政策选择的境地，恰如立法者所做的那样。