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Replace welfare benefits with Citizen's Income

Submitted on Friday 5th August 2011

Published on Monday 8th August 2011

Current status: Closed

Closed: Wednesday 8th August 2012

Signatures: 7

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Child ~ Citizens ~ Tax

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Replace welfare benefits with Citizen's Income

Additional Information

Replace most welfare benefits with a new, non-means tested universal benefit known as "citizen's income". Analagous to Child Benefit, this credit is paid to every citizen, instead of being clawed back by unfair means-testing, it's taken out progressively via the tax system.

Citizens' income would remove powerful disincentives to work, especially considering today's businesses demands for a more flexible workforce. It would also encourage more people to work for themselves and would replace a failed, old-fashioned, very bureacratic safety net that pays people to be idle with a modern, fit-for-purpose welfare system that rewards work instead of punishing it and does not criminalise the poor.


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