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Be Disabled or unemployed.
Disability pays like $900/month, max.
Unemployment is something YOU already paid to yourself, is based on what income you had when you lost your job, and runs out in about 6 months.
Not everywhere is America.
The disabled and unemployed get fuck-all and struggle to survive.
Defend your comment.
I never said it was a good salary
lmao
But, a good salary was implied
At least where I live, collecting unemployment requires doing tasks that I consider "working".
Like applying for jobs or what?
Yeah, they require (a very reasonable number of) job hunting activities, and also you also have to fill out a form every week to actually collect the payment.
Thats way more work than here. You can get away with applying for 0 jobs and of the case worker calls you up to check youve been applying for jobs then you just send out a few applications