Basic income: Care leavers to be offered £1,600 a month for two years under Wales pilot scheme

Basic income: Care leavers to be offered £1,600 a month for two years under Wales pilot scheme

Around 500 people will be eligible for the scheme. File pic All young people leaving care after they turn 18 are to be offered the chance to receive £1,600 a month for two years as part of a basic income pilot scheme.

Around 500 people will be eligible for the scheme, thought to be the most generous of its kind in the world, which will cost the Welsh government £20m over the next three years.

It is set to be launched in the summer and has been designed following research of basic income schemes elsewhere in the world, including Finland. How […]

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