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Re:When Stockton gave people cash, they got jobs by CraigJPerry on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @01:58PM (#27121297)
In the uk we spent £2.6bn on staffing the department for work and pensions in 2017 and for that 2.6bn cost they dispensed £1.9bn to “job seekers allowance” claimants (unemployment benefit).

The 2.6bn is staffing costs only, it ignores e.g. fines and legal costs for when the dwp gets things wrong. The dwp was wrong almost 400 times per day, every day of the year if you count the tribunal rulings against them in 2017.

UBI seems cheap.

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Re:When Stockton gave people cash, they got jobs by annoyingnoob on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:48PM (#27122635)
If we take the 2.6b + 1.9b that is 4.5b spent today. Equally divided among the UK population of 68.1m, we can give about 66 pounds a year to each person for the same cost. Is 66 pounds a year solving anyone's problems?
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