I would like to the implementation of a full citizen's income. A citizen's income is an income paid by the state to every person as a right of citizenship. The assessment unit is the individual so the amount of citizen's income received is the same whether one is living alone, a partner of a couple, or as a member of a family or household.
By which I mean simply this: it's far less cheaper, per person, to feed a family of 5 than it is to feed oneself when one is living alone.
Also, in it's purest form it also doesn't take special needs and circumstances in to consideration.
But if you dilute it, and do take those needs and circumstances into consideration, you essentially end up back with the current model of various different levels of benefit and means-tested top-ups.
Indeed you could look at the current system as a citizen's income of £0 topped up with different amounts depending on whether you're unemployed, ill or disabled, or have children, and so on.
I would like to the implementation of a full citizen's income. A citizen's income is an income paid by the state to every person as a right of citizenship. The assessment unit is the individual so the amount of citizen's income received is the same whether one is living alone, a partner of a couple, or as a member of a family or household.
By which I mean simply this: it's far less cheaper, per person, to feed a family of 5 than it is to feed oneself when one is living alone.
Also, in it's purest form it also doesn't take special needs and circumstances in to consideration.
But if you dilute it, and do take those needs and circumstances into consideration, you essentially end up back with the current model of various different levels of benefit and means-tested top-ups.
Indeed you could look at the current system as a citizen's income of £0 topped up with different amounts depending on whether you're unemployed, ill or disabled, or have children, and so on.
