Basic Living Stipend
From Honorverse
The Basic Living Stipend, or BLS, was welfare payments issued to the Havenite poor known as Dolists.
The BLS was a source of conflict between the Dolists and the People's Republic's government. The Dolists felt that they were entitled to an ever increasing BLS, for which the government was incapable of providing due to the need to maintain the sprawling bureaucracy and huge military. Efforts to freeze or lower the stipend caused growing violence against the government by the Dolists and other groups.
In 1900 PD, Secretary of the Economy Walter Frankel advocated against lowering of the BLS for more money towards the military, but he was overruled by the President to instead start expanding Haven's borders towards Basilisk and the Basilisk Terminus. (HH1)
