Yes. Then they wouldn't keep sending me for these stupid medical re-assessments when my condition never improves. :angry: Another one looms.

Edited December 27, 20186 yr by Crazy Christmas

Don't we have similar to this with tax credits and things like that? Most people don't get paid enough to live off by big corporations these days!!

The ultimate premise though through ideas like this is to make work an option that people take to earn more or to find purpose, as opposed to having to work for survival. It’s a lot more wide-ranging than our current system of benefits and most proposals has it apply to everyone no matter their income (though in order to make it work in practice I would imagine higher earners to be incentivised somehow to surrender their contributions)

 

I think it will eventually come to pass but not before we have a massive unemployment crisis from automation that exacerbates the need for it.

I'm For, on the whole. I've been interested in this initiative for a few years. One of my local Labour councillors and now a parliamentary candidate has been championing it and raising awareness of the idea for ages. At first he was like a lone voice in the wilderness but he never gave up and he deserves real credit. He was so passionate and enthusiastic that I started to look for info, pros and cons, about the scheme.

 

As always in politics the devil is in the detail. I hope that if the pilots go well, the government and the cIvil service won't overcomplicate it.

 

The current welfare system is an unwieldy mess that's open to mistakes on all sides and misery for so many because it's been chopped and changed so much with changes being made piecemeal over decades.

Edited December 29, 20186 yr by Baytree