North German state weighs up introducing unconditional basic income

North German state weighs up introducing unconditional basic income

Robert Habeck. Photo: DPA Schleswig-Holstein’s new state government is considering a project to bring in an unconditional basic income. But the plans aren’t quite as advanced as some media outlets suggest.

The Flensburger Tageblatt (FT) first reported on Monday that the the new government in Germany’s northernmost state was dead set on testing out the controversial form of social security, whereby every citizen receives a flat monthly sum of money from the state regardless of whether they are employed or not.

“As a government we want to test out the unconditional basic income and make Schleswig-Holstein a model region,” the […]

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