we want to give everyone £400 a month for a year – no strings attached

The end of furlough and the £20 cut to Universal Credit will hit the poorest families hard this winter.

The pandemic is not yet over. We urgently need to provide support and security to households across the UK. Unless we replace the furlough scheme with another form of support, millions of people will be plunged into poverty.

We're proposing a Covid Dividend that would give:

all working-age adults (16-64) £400 each month
all children and pensioners £200 each month

The Resilience UBI would last one year, but could be extended depending on circumstances. Like the furlough scheme, we would fund a Resilience UBI through Quantitative Easing. This means the Bank of England would create new money to pay for the scheme.

A Resilience UBI would:

guarantee economic security for every household in the UK
give citizens the spending power to revive our communities and our high streets.
build up resilience in individual households and our economy to protect against future shocks

Our proposal paper demonstrates how we can easily afford a Resilience UBI.

Download the Resilience Proposal

Resilience UBI proposal - Final cover.jpg — Proposing a Resilience Universal Basic Income

This proposal is for a temporary Universal Basic Income (UBI) to help households and the economy recover from the effects of Covid-19.
The fully-costed proposal has been authored by Patrick Brown and would see every working-age adult in the UK receive a £400 a month ‘Covid Dividend’ for a year, while children and pensioners would receive £200 a month.
Published October 2021.

Download (PDF, 38 pages)

See what impact the Resilience UBI would have on your household

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