allowance, housing benefit, child tax credit, working tax credit, income support and income-related employment support allowance.But a new poll by Save the Children and Netmums showed that more than half (56%) of unemployed mothers in the UK said childcare costs were the main reason they ...
A Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a regular financial payment made to all eligible adults, whether they work or not, regardless of their other means, and without any conditionality whatever.
Stirling says: ‘Repurposing the funds from the personal allowance into a new “weekly national allowance”, paid to everyone outside of the richest 1%, would significantly improve on the social security system at a time when the botched rollout of Universal Credit is otherwise causing acute finan...
Thenew analysis, from the left-leaning Roosevelt Institute, considers three main scenarios: paying every adult $1,000 a month, paying all adults $500 a month, and paying $250 a month just to kids (a child allowance). In all cases–including different ways of paying for an UBI–the impac...
• The report has come at a time of rising concern about poverty and the economic sustainability of life in the UK and the rest of the world. • Despite reforms over the years including an increasing minimum wage, and the raising of the threshold for personal tax allowance, the lev...