pogey

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A poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc
Government financial assistance, particularly employment insurance

There were no jobs for the unemployed, however. And thus many hundreds of thousands went “on the pogey,” although all available evidence indicates that they loathed doing so. To accept relief was an admission of defeat and failure, a humiliating stigma, whether the relief was indirect or direct.

{i} (British) financial assistance for the needy
Government financial assistance, particularly unemployment insurance
pogey