New report in Scotland backs 3-year basic income experiment with 17,000 recipients

New report in Scotland backs 3-year basic income experiment with 17,000 recipients

Backing for £200m pilot of citizens income

HOPES that a universal basic income could be a rapid response to the Covid crisis have been dashed by a new study that says it will take three years and £200m just to pilot the idea in Scotland .

Funded by the Scottish Government, the study also warns the experiment will be impossible without Westminster and Holyrood cooperating.The SNP, Liberal Democrats and Greens have recently backed a basic income paid to all as a way of dealing with the economic damage caused by the pandemic.Today’s report backs a three-year pilot, which would cost […]

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