UK Green Party Policy: Unconditional “Citizens Income”(policy.greenparty.org.uk)
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UK Green Party Policy: Unconditional “Citizens Income”
http://policy.greenparty.org.uk/ec.html#EC730
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What does non-withdrawable mean?
'Nonwithdrawable' means that if you earn additional income then your Citizen's Income will not be withdrawn. This is different from means-tested benefits which are reduced if earnings rise.
Quoting from: http://www.citizensincome.org/FAQs.htm
I thought "non-withdrawable" meant some crazy credit system where you don't get to withdraw your money but can only trade it for living necessities or something.
Quoting from: http://www.citizensincome.org/FAQs.htm
I thought "non-withdrawable" meant some crazy credit system where you don't get to withdraw your money but can only trade it for living necessities or something.
It'd be exciting to see what happened if a policy like this is ever talked about seriously at high levels of government.
However, I do notice that the "Citizen's Income Trust" charity that provided the research to justify this has more recently changed their opinion. They are now stating that the poorest would not benefit from such a policy. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/27/green-party-...