Basic income recipients experienced less financial insecurity

Basic income recipients experienced less financial insecurity

Even recipients who felt that their income was inadequate to their needs reported less stress than the control group. Survey respondents who received a basic income described their financial situation more positively than respondents in the control group. They also experienced less stress and fewer financial worries than the control group.

Even recipients who had difficulty making ends meet experienced less stress than respondents in the control group.

According to Signe Jauhiainen of the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela), the findings are interesting in that previous research has shown financial difficulties to be a bigger contributor to stress than other […]

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