The topic of welfare and the Welfare State is vast and well documented at CBIT.
We have long argued that the majority of current means-tested benefits, like Universal Credit, are not only expensive to run, but also demeaning humiliating to those who use them.
We believe that a Citizens Basic Income (also known as Universal Basic Income) is a better way to tackle poverty and financial insecurity.
It is a simple concept: A regular payment to all citizens, no questions asked. Everyone gets it as a right of citizenship.
Below you can explore the topic of welfare and the Welfare State and its relation to Citizens Income.
On the 26th November the London School of Economics held an event about Universal Basic Income and Universal Basic Services. For further details of the event, click here. And to Read More
A recently published London School of Economics Ph.D. thesis, ‘Essays on conditional cash transfers, targeting and educational outcomes: evidence from Chile’, by Cristián Crespo Rojas, concludes that Have CCTs [Conditional Read More
The Centre for Welfare Reform has published a statement of support for Citizen’s Basic Income. Community groups working to advance social justice and promote the testing of Universal Basic Income Read More
The Institute for Public Policy Research has published a new report, Social (in)security: Reforming the UK’s social safety net. The concept behind universal credit (UC) – that integrating working-age benefits would Read More
Paul Spicker has written a blog post about the take-up of different kinds of benefits. His conclusions are as follows: Arguments about takeup have often centred on means-tested benefits, but Read More
A event will be held at the London School of Economics on Tuesday 26th November about Citizen’s Basic Income and Universal Basic Services. What are the arguments for Universal Basic Income Read More
Two of Paul Spicker’s recent blog posts are relevant to the Citizen’s Basic Income debate. In an article written on the 22nd September he summarises his contribution to a new Read More
The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice has published an article by Rita Griffiths titled ‘For better or for worse: does the UK means-tested social security system encourage partnership dissolution?‘ Read More
James Midgley, Rebecca Surender and Laura Alfers (eds), Handbook of Social Policy and Development, Edward Elgar, 2019, xiii + 486 pp, hbk, 1 78536 842 4, £155 The eBook version Read More
Mies Westerveld and Marius Olivier (eds), Social Security Outside the Realm of the Employment Contract: Informal Work and Employee-like Workers, Edward Elgar, 2019, x + 230 pp, 1 78811 339 Read More