Unemployment Benefit
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An Unemployment Benefit is an civil society benefit that covers unemployment.
References
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_benefits Retrieved:2020-4-3.
- Unemployment benefits (depending on the jurisdiction also called unemployment insurance or unemployment compensation) are payments made by authorized bodies to unemployed people. In the United States, benefits are funded by a compulsory governmental insurance system, not taxes on individual citizens. Depending on the jurisdiction and the status of the person, those sums may be small, covering only basic needs, or may compensate the lost time proportionally to the previous earned salary.
Unemployment benefits are generally given only to those registering as unemployed, and often on conditions ensuring that they seek work and do not currently have a job, and are validated as being laid off and not fired for cause in most states.
Unemployment benefit is commonly referred to as "the dole"; to receive the benefit is to be "on the dole". "Dole" here is an archaic expression meaning "one's allotted portion", from the synonymous Old English word dāl.
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- Unemployment benefits (depending on the jurisdiction also called unemployment insurance or unemployment compensation) are payments made by authorized bodies to unemployed people. In the United States, benefits are funded by a compulsory governmental insurance system, not taxes on individual citizens. Depending on the jurisdiction and the status of the person, those sums may be small, covering only basic needs, or may compensate the lost time proportionally to the previous earned salary.