на пособии(по безработице; receiving money that a government (especially the British government) gives to people who do not have jobs or who are very poor: They've been on the dole for a year.)
выжить на пособие по безработице(While the unemployed survived "on the dole" in the old industrial towns of the north, a new home-owning, car-owning British society was beginning to take shape in much of the south. Muslimah)