Wales is trialling a £1,600 a month Universal Basic Income for care leavers | Left Foot Forward
It’s all happening in Wales!
I bet UK Labour members are eating their hearts out that they’re stuck with Keir Starmer, who probably wouldn’t dream of allowing such a policy in a million years.
The Welsh government has announced that young adults leaving care in Wales will be offered £1,600 a month for two years as part of a universal basic income trial.
That means around 500 18-year-olds will be receiving the money as a ‘safety blanket’ as they enter adulthood. The payments will begin from 1 July and the Welsh government hopes that it will help them “on a path to live, healthy, happy and fulfilling lives.”
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Wish something like this had been in place in my youth when I left
Brilliant and now we as radical Labour need to establish a local community currency, a Welsh Pund…to enable ua to take back control from Johnson and hie extremists in Westminster.
seriously? that’s like 20k a year ish…i’ve never been able to earn that kind of money in my life! do they still get it if they work????