As an aside from unemployment specifically but on the topic of "social safety nets"...

I found a website for a US state's SNAP program (assistance buying food).

Digging through the details... if you have a job but work less than 20 hours at that job, you could be denied OR penalized for not working enough hours.

For the record, my current job if I ONLY punched in/out when the office was opened/closed, would only be 16 hours a week.