Hip
Senior Member
- Messages
- 17,869
The UK benefits system has become very demeaning and abusive for genuine claimants who may have contributed thousands to it and has been well documented in the Blacktriangle website (3).
I think the answer to this lies with the new basic income for everyone concept being pioneered in the Netherlands:
Dutch city plans to pay citizens a ‘basic income’, and Greens say it could work in the UK
The idea is that everyone in the country, working or not working, gets paid a basic income amount every month, roughly the same amount as the dole (social security income) pays at the moment. That actually makes things very simple, because you can then close down all or most of the dole offices that assess people, because everyone gets the dole.