14:15 Tuesday 03 January 2017 Scotland is set to pilot a radical scheme to give every citizen a universal basic income (UBI), regardless of whether they work or not.
Two Labour-run councils, Fife and Glasgow, are designing trial schemes following meetings held late last year.
What level the basic income would be set at is yet to be announced, but the councils are to go ahead with the pilots, subject to sufficient funding being secured.Under UBI, welfare benefits such as working tax credits, Jobseekers’ Allowance and state pensions are replaced by a single, unconditional flat-rate payment, regardless of whether […]
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