The Scottish Government should scrap benefits and pay every adult a basic income to eliminate poverty, a report has said.
Paying an initial basic income of £2,400 a year, before eventually raising it to £4,800, would eradicate destitution in Scotland, the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) claimed.
The charity has called for Holyrood to pilot a basic income scheme by scrapping sanction-led employment benefits and the personal allowance in favour of a regular, unconditional payment of £2,400 per adult, or £1,500 per child, per year.Its report found “child destitution would vanish almost immediately” if an […]
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