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Finland planning to scrap benefits ....
Finland planning to scrap benefits and give every citizen a basic income of €800 a month
(Although presumably there’d be provision for extra needs because of health / disability etc?)
So Fins ain’t what they used to be !
(sorry…couldn’t resist…)
I’ll get your coat .....
People who might want to know more about the Citizens Income idea might find http://www.citizensincome.org/ interesting.
(declaration of interest, I am a trustee of the Citizens Income Trust)
With no conditionality ... the income just falls in their Lapps?
Actually…haven’t we been here before? A strange sense of de ja vu is creeping upon me. Sure I’ve subjected you to the ‘Fin’ pun in the not too distant past. And it isn’t even Friday (though I suppose the thread does have a suitably Christmassy feel to it.) And Jon- that’s truly appalling and I’m dead jealous.
Yeah, that’s probably going to be the high point of my week.
Some more bits and pieces ....
On the Finnish experiment -
Finland’s hugely exciting experiment in basic income, explained
Contrary to reports, basic income study still at preliminary stage
More widely -
Can a basic income work?: Tim Blackwell writing for the New Statesman yesterday
Could a ‘citizen’s income’ work?: Donald Hirsch writing for JRF back in March 2015
So they have plans to scrap benefits, but the question is, will they Finnish the job?
.....................or will it just helsinki without trace?
What is left unstated is that they plan a flat rate tax of 800 euros a month to finance this.