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I think you be required to do community service if you want to keep unemployment insurance after 99 weeks. CMV

Nobody likes to lose their job. I get it, if you can't find work, then you should have a safety net that pays you. But after nearly two years, I think you should have to earn further payments. After 99 weeks, you should be required to do community service in order to keep your benefits. Volunteer at a soup kitchen, help a veteran build a home, pick up litter. It doesn't matter, as long as you help out. This was originally an idea by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and I think it would greatly improve the United States.

Go ahead. Change my view.
gpt
I can give you an excellent example of this program failing in Australia. We had a nationwide program called ‘Work for the Dole’ (Dole being slang social welfare payments) which ended a few years after its creation a decade ago from memory. There were several reasons for it closure; it cost the government more, stretched already allocated human resources, and had limited outcomes. To give some examples of what happened; all of a sudden many unemployed we’re required to find their own ‘volunteer’ work in charities etc which inundated charities to the point many wouldn’t take the ‘volunteers’ on. Not only did front line workers in charities feel pressure to fill medial jobs for government incentives but their own jobs were being compromised by unskilled workers and people who didn’t want to be there (no just the ‘bludgers’ but people who wanted to find work and found the exercise almost pointless to helping themselves). So as part of the plan the government made programs that were rolled out to fill the ‘need’ to hire ‘volunteers’, which meant hiring more people and more money. One of those programs was the clean-up parks and bushland, because of insurance requirements the ‘volunteers’ had to go through expensive training in something they would never benefit from after the program. So you have 2 paid workers and bus full of people, many of whom did not want to be there, go out picking up rubbish. Some people really did work hard and it was reported back through social services to report to potential employees as reference, that was good but it had little value to potential employees in reality. Than you had the people who didn’t want to be there and would durdle around and pick up trash straight out of public bins etc and to top that off we started to see cases of insurance claims because the ‘volunteers’ were either under-trained, under-supervised, or otherwise just incapable of doing that type work. Overall it was a costly disaster. We do have a better system now where people can earn credits and even mildly increase their payments for finding truly needed voluntary work. It’s much simpler, cheaper, and much more beneficial to society because the work they do is needed.