How it would work
Unconditional
No means test, no obligation to seek work, no categories of eligible claimant.
The income is paid to every resident, without an application and without checks on personal circumstances.
Why without conditions
Conditions cost money: verifying them consumes resources, produces errors in both directions, and places the people subject to them in a relationship of surveillance with the state.
More importantly, every condition creates a threshold. A benefit lost when you earn turns the first pay packet into a net loss. That is the poverty trap, and it has nothing to do with anyone's laziness.
What it does not mean
It does not mean the same nominal amount everywhere. An amount anchored to national living costs is perfectly compatible with unconditionality: what must not depend on conditions is the entitlement, not the figure.
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More principles on How it would work
Enough to live on
Reference: 60% of national median income
Above the poverty line — otherwise it does not change the balance of power and achieves little.
Individual
Every adult
To each person, not each household: that is what makes it possible to leave a home where you are unsafe.
Added, not substituted
A necessary clarification against a common confusion
Health, education and services remain. A basic income is a floor, not a trade.