diff --git a/docs/api/createListenerMiddleware.mdx b/docs/api/createListenerMiddleware.mdx
index bbab7b4ae6..e04dd23d67 100644
--- a/docs/api/createListenerMiddleware.mdx
+++ b/docs/api/createListenerMiddleware.mdx
@@ -364,6 +364,10 @@ export interface ListenerEffectAPI<
    * Cancels the listener instance that made this call.
    */
   cancel: () => void
+  /**
+   * Throws a `TaskAbortError` if this listener has been cancelled
+   */
+  throwIfCancelled: () => void
   /**
    * An abort signal whose `aborted` property is set to `true`
    * if the listener execution is either aborted or completed.
@@ -408,6 +412,7 @@ These can be divided into several categories.
 - `subscribe: () => void`: will re-subscribe the listener entry if it was previously removed, or no-op if currently subscribed
 - `cancelActiveListeners: () => void`: cancels all other running instances of this same listener _except_ for the one that made this call. (The cancellation will only have a meaningful effect if the other instances are paused using one of the cancellation-aware APIs like `take/cancel/pause/delay` - see "Cancelation and Task Management" in the "Usage" section for more details)
 - `cancel: () => void`: cancels the instance of this listener that made this call.
+- `throwIfCancelled: () => void`: throws a `TaskAbortError` if the current listener instance was cancelled.
 - `signal: AbortSignal`: An [`AbortSignal`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AbortSignal) whose `aborted` property will be set to `true` if the listener execution is aborted or completed.
 
 Dynamically unsubscribing and re-subscribing this listener allows for more complex async workflows, such as avoiding duplicate running instances by calling `listenerApi.unsubscribe()` at the start of a listener, or calling `listenerApi.cancelActiveListeners()` to ensure that only the most recent instance is allowed to complete.
@@ -645,6 +650,8 @@ The listener middleware supports cancellation of running listener instances, `ta
 
 The `listenerApi.pause/delay()` functions provide a cancellation-aware way to have the current listener sleep. `pause()` accepts a promise, while `delay` accepts a timeout value. If the listener is cancelled while waiting, a `TaskAbortError` will be thrown. In addition, both `take` and `condition` support cancellation interruption as well.
 
+`listenerApi.cancelActiveListeners()` will cancel _other_ existing instances that are running, while `listenerApi.cancel()` can be used to cancel the _current_ instance (which may be useful from a fork, which could be deeply nested and not able to directly throw a promise to break out of the effect execution). `listenerAPi.throwIfCancelled()` can also be useful to bail out of workflows in case cancellation happened while the effect was doing other work.
+
 `listenerApi.fork()` can used to launch "child tasks" that can do additional work. These can be waited on to collect their results. An example of this might look like:
 
 ```ts no-transpile
diff --git a/packages/toolkit/src/listenerMiddleware/index.ts b/packages/toolkit/src/listenerMiddleware/index.ts
index 05cdf721db..f502fa99bc 100644
--- a/packages/toolkit/src/listenerMiddleware/index.ts
+++ b/packages/toolkit/src/listenerMiddleware/index.ts
@@ -426,6 +426,9 @@ export function createListenerMiddleware<
               )
               entry.pending.delete(internalTaskController)
             },
+            throwIfCancelled: () => {
+              validateActive(internalTaskController.signal)
+            },
           })
         )
       )
diff --git a/packages/toolkit/src/listenerMiddleware/tests/listenerMiddleware.test.ts b/packages/toolkit/src/listenerMiddleware/tests/listenerMiddleware.test.ts
index 83469620a1..1b39d5fdd3 100644
--- a/packages/toolkit/src/listenerMiddleware/tests/listenerMiddleware.test.ts
+++ b/packages/toolkit/src/listenerMiddleware/tests/listenerMiddleware.test.ts
@@ -671,6 +671,52 @@ describe('createListenerMiddleware', () => {
       expect(await deferredCancelledSignalReason).toBe(listenerCancelled)
     })
 
+    test('Can easily check if the listener has been cancelled', async () => {
+      const pauseDeferred = deferred<void>()
+
+      let listenerCancelled = false
+      let listenerStarted = false
+      let listenerCompleted = false
+      let cancelListener: () => void = () => {}
+      let error: TaskAbortError | undefined = undefined
+
+      startListening({
+        actionCreator: testAction1,
+        effect: async ({ payload }, { throwIfCancelled, cancel }) => {
+          cancelListener = cancel
+          try {
+            listenerStarted = true
+            throwIfCancelled()
+            await pauseDeferred
+
+            throwIfCancelled()
+            listenerCompleted = true
+          } catch (err) {
+            if (err instanceof TaskAbortError) {
+              listenerCancelled = true
+              error = err
+            }
+          }
+        },
+      })
+
+      store.dispatch(testAction1('a'))
+      expect(listenerStarted).toBe(true)
+      expect(listenerCompleted).toBe(false)
+      expect(listenerCancelled).toBe(false)
+
+      // Cancel it while the listener is paused at a non-cancel-aware promise
+      cancelListener()
+      pauseDeferred.resolve()
+
+      await delay(10)
+      expect(listenerCompleted).toBe(false)
+      expect(listenerCancelled).toBe(true)
+      expect((error as any)?.message).toBe(
+        'task cancelled (reason: listener-cancelled)'
+      )
+    })
+
     test('can unsubscribe via middleware api', () => {
       const effect = jest.fn(
         (action: TestAction1, api: ListenerEffectAPI<any, any>) => {
@@ -1087,12 +1133,13 @@ describe('createListenerMiddleware', () => {
         middleware: (gDM) => gDM().prepend(middleware),
       })
 
-      const typedAddListener =
-        startListening as TypedStartListening<
-          CounterState,
-          typeof store.dispatch
-        >
-      let result: [ReturnType<typeof increment>, CounterState, CounterState] | null = null
+      const typedAddListener = startListening as TypedStartListening<
+        CounterState,
+        typeof store.dispatch
+      >
+      let result:
+        | [ReturnType<typeof increment>, CounterState, CounterState]
+        | null = null
 
       typedAddListener({
         predicate: incrementByAmount.match,
@@ -1158,25 +1205,28 @@ describe('createListenerMiddleware', () => {
         middleware: (gDM) => gDM().prepend(middleware),
       })
 
-      type ExpectedTakeResultType = readonly [ReturnType<typeof increment>, CounterState, CounterState] | null
+      type ExpectedTakeResultType =
+        | readonly [ReturnType<typeof increment>, CounterState, CounterState]
+        | null
 
       let timeout: number | undefined = undefined
       let done = false
 
-      const startAppListening = startListening as TypedStartListening<CounterState>
+      const startAppListening =
+        startListening as TypedStartListening<CounterState>
       startAppListening({
         predicate: incrementByAmount.match,
         effect: async (_, listenerApi) => {
           const stateBefore = listenerApi.getState()
-          
+
           let takeResult = await listenerApi.take(increment.match, timeout)
           const stateCurrent = listenerApi.getState()
           expect(takeResult).toEqual([increment(), stateCurrent, stateBefore])
-          
+
           timeout = 1
           takeResult = await listenerApi.take(increment.match, timeout)
           expect(takeResult).toBeNull()
-          
+
           expectType<ExpectedTakeResultType>(takeResult)
 
           done = true
diff --git a/packages/toolkit/src/listenerMiddleware/types.ts b/packages/toolkit/src/listenerMiddleware/types.ts
index 6082349a7d..42c8530370 100644
--- a/packages/toolkit/src/listenerMiddleware/types.ts
+++ b/packages/toolkit/src/listenerMiddleware/types.ts
@@ -237,6 +237,10 @@ export interface ListenerEffectAPI<
    * Cancels the instance of this listener that made this call.
    */
   cancel: () => void
+  /**
+   * Throws a `TaskAbortError` if this listener has been cancelled
+   */
+  throwIfCancelled: () => void
   /**
    * An abort signal whose `aborted` property is set to `true`
    * if the listener execution is either aborted or completed.