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I thought 'dole' is a a safety net

• dingaling 12y ago
  Dole ( UK slang for Job Seekers' Allowance, JSA ) is very fickle and can be arbitrarily stopped for a number of reasons: https://www.gov.uk/jobseekers-allowance/further-information https://www.gov.uk/jobseekers-allowance/further-information For example, local to me there was some controversy when people refused a zero-salary 'job' working for a chain of discount stores. Their JSA was stopped as punishment, so they had no income. Not much of a safety net, it's actually now a policy tool to coerce people into menial and undesirable jobs, and to keep them there ( being fired makes resuming JSA difficult ).