The UK seems to be somewhere in the middle with unemployment benefit
The UK rules are...weird these days - if you quit a job, you can't claim, (bro had to quit a job because they dropped the pay - meant he was earning just over the cost of getting to work) if you were in work and made redundant/fired you are only entitled to benefit for six months if you have never worked and are under the age of 18 at the beginning you get it until you get work if you have never worked but are over the age of 18 - you can't get it
oddly - if you are working less than 16 hours a week, you can get unemployment benefit though
Universal credit in theory covers some of the gaps - but only to a limited extent (if you live with parents and don't have a formal legal tenancy agreement and at least one of your parents is working - you can't claim universal credit. If you live with a housemate and they are earning you may not get it(randomly household income is the measure for it, not personal).
But yeah - our system is definately designed to be hard to use/discourage it's use unless you really enjoy lots of forms and waiting.
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The UK rules are...weird these days - if you quit a job, you can't claim, (bro had to quit a job because they dropped the pay - meant he was earning just over the cost of getting to work)
if you were in work and made redundant/fired you are only entitled to benefit for six months
if you have never worked and are under the age of 18 at the beginning you get it until you get work
if you have never worked but are over the age of 18 - you can't get it
oddly - if you are working less than 16 hours a week, you can get unemployment benefit though
Universal credit in theory covers some of the gaps - but only to a limited extent
(if you live with parents and don't have a formal legal tenancy agreement and at least one of your parents is working - you can't claim universal credit. If you live with a housemate and they are earning you may not get it(randomly household income is the measure for it, not personal).
But yeah - our system is definately designed to be hard to use/discourage it's use unless you really enjoy lots of forms and waiting.