An expert panel commissioned First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has recommended that Scots of working age are paid £11,000 a year as part of a new £186 million experiment in adopting a universal basic income. Nicola Sturgeon The report compiled by local authorities has insisted that a pilot of the radical scheme is “desirable”, but recognises it needs support from Westminster, the Department for Work and Pensions and HM Revenue & Customs .
The concept of the universal basic income is based on offering everyone in Scotland a regular payment regardless of benefits or earnings.
Councils in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Fife and North […]
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