Citizens Basic Income - New Booklet Launched

A new introductory booklet is now available

A Citizen’s Basic Income is: 

• ‘Unconditional’: A Citizen’s Basic Income would vary with age, but there would be no other conditions: so everyone of the same age would receive the same Citizen’s Basic Income, whatever their gender, employment status, family structure, contribution to society, housing costs, or anything else.
• ‘Automatic’: Someone’s Citizen’s Basic Income would be paid weekly or monthly, automatically.
• ‘Nonwithdrawable’: Citizen’s Basic Incomes would not be means-tested. If someone’s earnings or wealth increased, then their Citizen’s Income would not change.
• ‘Individual’: Citizen’s Basic Incomes would be paid on an individual basis, and not on the basis of a couple or household.
• ‘As a right of citizenship’: Everybody legally resident in the UK would receive a Citizen’s Basic Income, subject to a minimum period of legal residency in the UK, and continuing residency for most of the year.

 Contents 

• What is a Citizen’s Basic Income?
• How would it work?
• Six fundamental changes
• Four frequently asked questions
• Constructing a feasible Citizen’s Basic Income scheme
• An illustrative Citizen’s Basic Income scheme
• The effect on means-tested benefits
• The effect on inequality and poverty
• The effect on a typical household
• Housing costs
• Implementation methods
• Alternatives to Citizen’s Basic Income?
• Who would receive a Citizen’s Basic Income?
• Further reading
• The Citizen’s Basic Income Trust
• How you can help

ABC Note: The Citizen’s Basic Income booklet can be downloaded below: