Thousands of people in Cardiff could be given £100 a week in basic income pilot

Thousands of people in Cardiff could be given £100 a week in basic income pilot

Thousands of people in Cardiff could be given £100 a week for free in a new pilot testing the idea of a universal basic income.

The pilot could see 5,000 picked at random and given £100 a week for two years. Researchers would gather evidence to see if and how a universal basic income could be rolled out to everybody.

Sheffield, Hull and Liverpool councils have all passed motions supporting a basic income pilot. Now campaigners at UBI Lab Cardiff have written to councillors urging them to do the same.The exact number of people in the pilot and how much they […]

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