Petteri Orpo (NCP), the Minister of Finance, has echoed the assessment of several of his colleagues by naming social security reform as the most important task of the next government. Petteri Orpo (NCP), the Minister of Finance, is proposing that the government trial a universal credit scheme not dissimilar to that adopted in the United Kingdom in 2013. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), he reminds, estimated in its latest country report that a universal credit scheme would be an effective means to reduce both poverty and income inequalities, and would serve as a great foundation for […]
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