Petteri Orpo on March 23 Image: Jussi Nukari / Lehtikuva Finland’s Finance Minister Petteri Orpo wants the government to schedule a new trial that would experiment with replacing the current sprawling system of Finnish state benefits with the UK’s universal credit.
The idea of universal credit was introduced in Britain in 2013 as a single benefit payment to replace six separate means-tested benefits such as jobseekers allowances, housing benefits and child tax credits.
Orpo referred to a February report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a club of 35 high-income countries, which says that the universal credit would […]
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