Uh, no? You get unemployment benefits. For a little while. In some places there may also be something like rent compensation, but generally unemployment benefi

Uh, no? You get unemployment benefits. For a little while. In some places there may also be something like rent compensation, but generally unemployment benefits are supposed to be all-encompassing. (They are nowhere near enough to be all-encompassing.) Once the unemployment benefits end, you better have a job. My wife lost her job in the summer of 2020. We were incredibly lucky that the lockdowns meant extended unemployment benefits. They still lasted....I forget exactly, but I believe it was no more than about a year.