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Only for Children?

In: Basic Income—What, Why, and How?

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  • Malcolm Torry

    (University of Bath)

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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.

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  • Malcolm Torry, 2022. "Only for Children?," Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, in: Basic Income—What, Why, and How?, chapter 0, pages 99-130, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:etbchp:978-3-031-14248-2_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-14248-2_7
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