Only for Children?

Malcolm Torry ()
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Malcolm Torry: University of Bath

Chapter Chapter 7 in Basic Income—What, Why, and How?, 2022, pp 99-130 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The United Kingdom (UK) already has an unconditional and nonwithdrawable income—for children. This chapter tells the story of how Family Allowance came about, how it became Child Benefit, and how it fares today; and at each stage of the story, reasons are sought for why things happened as they did. During the early 1970s, there was an attempt to legislate a Tax Credits scheme that bore some resemblance to a Negative Income Tax; Basic Income schemes have been discussed by parliamentary committees; and something like a Citizen’s Pension has been implemented. Again reasons are sought for why things happened as they did, and lessons are drawn from history in order to ask how likely it is that a Basic Income could be established in the UK and elsewhere.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-14248-2_7

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