• Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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    If I quit uni today and applied for social security and unemployment pay I’d be way better off financially. A friend of mine actually did that for a semester when she was desperate, despite being a keen and interested student. Not being in education or training can be temporarily easier than being in education or training.

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    There’s no way they get that much in benefits.

    I know the benefit system they spend the entire time trying to get around paying anybody anything, anytime they feel like they’ve not hassled you for a while they send people around to check on you.

    There is no way wau anon is getting away with that. They hardly ever pay the legitimate claimants

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      (the most ive ever been paid from SSI is like 600 a month when i was still on it.Pretty sure SSI caps around 1000 ish usd but im on ssd so not sure. One of my friends was on ssi for 400 a month. Its insane to me that i get more money than this and my ssd income is on par with minimum wage. Meanwhile everyone else without my lucky situation has far less.)

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      Not Educated Employed or Trained

      People who made it to adulthood without doing anything in life. Commonly they are carried by their parents. They live in the basement/most secluded room in the house, play video games and jerk off all day, eat frozen pizzas and chicken tenders, and usually do this until they’re like 50 years old, crusty, and their parents die.

      I know a couple. Dropped out of highschool, and have been coasting for over a decade off their rich parents, never leave the house, never had a job. Been that way for over a decade with no signs of change.

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        I believe it refers to current status, so it’s “Not in Education, Employment or Training”. Doesn’t mean the person cannot have a degree or diploma or at least finished school.

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          Correct, you can have a PhD and be a NEET. What matters is that you are currently unemployed, and not studying/training either.

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            I finish my current job in December and my new job doesn’t start until March, for some reason. So I’m going to be Neet for that time. Or does the fact that I have a job, it just hasn’t started yet, preclude me

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              Do you consider yourself unemployed? I’d say you aren’t if you are already hired for the next job.

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    Fuck, I’d sure like to be living in the fantasy world where America is that generous. You might get that much with a severe disability in a super high COL area, but it’d be hard fought and the invasion of your privacy is going to be absurd to make sure you’re not ‘abusing’ it.

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      Only if it comes from the regarded region of France, otherwise its just sparkling autism…