WordNet
n. payment by a United States agency to unemployed people
Usage examples of "unemployment compensation".
The cryptanalysts sometimes even got paid for not solving a cipher: if a key was stolen from an embassy, the codebreakers would get a kind of unemployment compensation because they had no opportunity to win their bonus.
If this kept up, he was going to run out of unemployment compensation before he found anything.
He was running out of unemployment compensation but had been unable to get any other job despite being declared technically fit by the welfare office.
I've got about a month to go before I'm eligible for unemployment compensation.
On January 28th the 'crats came from the Bureau of Health, Education and Welfare and said that since he was receiving Unemployment Compensation while suffering from an untreated illness, the government must look after him and restore him to health, because health is the inalienable right of the citizens of a democracy.
Though Ive never collected one in my life, if I wanted some unemployment compensation, Id be 280-30-8327.
Might as well get in line for unemployment compensation now, before the rush.
With a few questions, he established that both Mary and Peter Zelinsky were out of work and on unemployment compensation.
They say our culture has emphasized materialism and individual rights to the point of demanding getting certain benefits, such as welfare, farm subsidies, unemployment compensation, special education, health care, etc.
There was Hilary Ballard, poet, artist, playwright, actress, singer, frequent collector of unemployment compensation.