we already have a UBI-style structure for welfare in the UK. It’s called Universal Credit, but is set at a very low % of median income, so you aren’t living off it very comfortably. But the political economy here doesn’t seem very likely to support a much higher basic income any time soon. This imo gives the lie to the claims that simpler welfare systems on their own are more generous: I suspect for a variety of reasons the opposite is true.
we already have a UBI-style structure for welfare in the UK. It’s called Universal Credit, but is set at a very low % of median income, so you aren’t living off it very comfortably. But the political economy here doesn’t seem very likely to support a much higher basic income any time soon. This imo gives the lie to the claims that simpler welfare systems on their own are more generous: I suspect for a variety of reasons the opposite is true.