Finland, where your welfare is unconditional

Finland, where your welfare is unconditional

> The Nordic nation is giving a random selection of unemployed people €560 a month

The money has no strings attached, and is still paid even after taking a job

Participants are better off, but the payments not enough to survive on What happens next for unemployed Finns depends on 2019 election Every month, €560, the equivalent of $667 or £495, appears in Marja-Liisa Lähteinen’s bank account, from the Finnish government. Lähteinen, 32, who lives in Finland’s eastern city of Kuopio, snow-covered at this time of year, is one of 2,000 randomly-selected participants on a historic […]

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