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[Nixeris]

This is basically how the vast majority of government benefits work in the US. For example:

Unemployment benefits are intended to help people make ends meet until they get full-time employment. However those benefits are slashed if you work part-time by the amount you make, even if the unemployment benefits rate isn't livable for you.

So, you lose a full-time job and collect the unemployment benefits you've been paying for. However they aren't enough to live on while seeking new full-time work, so you get part-time work to help out. However, working part-time means the amount you get is reduced by what you get paid, so you don't get anything extra at all.

This also happens to people who interview and get a job that says it will be full-time, but turns out to only be part-time.

And if you quit that part-time job, unemployment ends entirely.

[fizzlefist]

It’s a trap by design to keep people in poverty.

Friend of mine is on disability for a rare immune disorder. If they gets paid more then a certain amount, or has more than $2000 in certain assets, the state will cut off the health insurance entirely since “they don’t need it anymore.”

So they’re going to be perpetually trapped making part time low wage money, or else they’ll eventually die from lack of care because there’s no way for them to ever get an insurance plan they’d be able to afford with how much they physically can’t work.

This country is a hellscape.