How was your bachelors degree paid for? I'd look into scholarships, take jobs that might help pay for continuing ed courses, decide on a course I'd really like to take and save from "now" to when I could afford it (I just applied to a year-long course that starts in September, for example, so I'm going to start paying now so I have a longer time to pay, for less amount each payment; it's in the UK and I'm in the States so I have to pay the non-UK/EU amount which is "thousands of pounds" more :-)

Why should someone else pay because you got ill? Everyone gets ill at some time or another or has another difficulty. That is part of what makes life interesting, working to master our personal challenges in life? Most people on the dole didn't get the initial opportunity for a bachelors? It's an effort to get those people up and working and paying taxes in the first place that the dole is for; presumably you are clever and were successful (got into university for your bachelors in the first place) and have that going for you and can figure out a way to start again in something else you might want to do if you don't want to go back to working on/completing your bachelors. I got a useless bachelors in 1972 but then went back to school in 2001, the next time I could afford it mentally and financially, etc. It took until 2007 to get that degree.