Finland is giving away free money to its jobless citizens
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 03-01-2017
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Head of Kela`s legal benefits unit, Marjukka Turunen says: `The experiment in Finland should provide insights on two fronts. The first is whether basic income could help clean up Finland`s messy system of social security. That`s really a burden for customers and Kela to do all those status changes. A form of basic income could mean people just need to apply for one status indefinitely, no changes required.`