Meaning & use
Pogey
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Canadian informal term for government unemployment or welfare benefits.
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After the factory closed, many workers had to go on pogey while searching for new jobs.
He joked that collecting pogey all summer was his real career.
A note on using this word
"Pogey" is distinctively Canadian slang, historically also used to refer to a poorhouse or relief center before narrowing to mean unemployment insurance payments.
Words with a similar meaning
welfareunemployment benefits
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