that is very dependent on your jurisdiction

as well as how much daring you have to not tell people who have no business asking you how much money you have

i fled australia 13 years ago to get away from the spanish inquisition, it was impossible to get off the ground floor, i couldn't get any job better than cleaning or data entry because of how bullshit the whole economic manipulation there is and i arrived in bulgaria in march 2013 and when i needed a job, i had one in under 2 weeks, as a call center operator, a job that i was unable to get a word in edgewise back in australia, though i had friends who had managed it

so, yeah, you probably live in some shithole former british/french socialist colony of shit, is my guess, or maybe the current colony of shit, or one of its outlying districts like the canary islands

point is

don't pay, don't file, and if you can't get a job, and you can land-border cross to a better place, go there

i understand you have history working in government departments and have some kind of papers for being a bean counter that probably won't help you much but maybe it would some arbitrary line on the ground beyond the space you now occupy