Ubi

• This micropilot will produce new UK data on the impact of the basic income in these communities, particularly the stories and experiences of the people that participate.
• This will help show if there is a case for a national basic income, or at least more comprehensive UK trials.
• Universal basic income (UBI) is a radical but, we believe, feasible alternative to the existing, failing welfare system.
• It could reduce poverty to unprecedented levels, address inequality within and between regions, and massively improve the nation’s health.

A radical approach

• One of the best ways to do this is to eradicate poverty and reduce inequality.
• The idea of the state redistributing resources by providing an adequate, regular and predictable payment to citizens is radical.
• One of the key, and often overlooked, consequences of this is its potential contribution to public health.
• And third, by giving people a more predictable and secure future, it would increase their perception of their lifespan.

This generation’s equivalent of the NHS

• Three decades after its implementation, the Labour government sought to understand why health inequality persisted.
• Future generations may look back at recent discussions about UBIs with the same confusion we feel when thinking of opposition to the NHS in the 1940s.
• Basic income is one such solution that could be as popular and transformative as the NHS.