Mark Drakeford’s Labour-run Welsh Government has been accused of handing out ‘free money’ today as it presses ahead with its ‘radical’ £20million basic income scheme pilot that will offer hundreds of teenagers £1,600 monthly handouts without needing to work.
Welsh Labour will hand out payments to 18-year-olds leaving the care system amounting to a salary of nearly £20,000 before tax for two years in a pilot scheme from this Friday.
More than 500 people will be able to apply to the three-year programme, where the money is put in their bank accounts with no demands on what they do to earn […]
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