‘Basic Income’ cannot be conditioned.
Torry 19 Malcolm Torry, Malcolm Torry (London School of Economics, United Kingdom) has been Director of the Citizen’s Basic Income Trust for most of the past thirty-five years. He has first degrees in mathematics, theology, philosophy, economics and management, master’s degrees in theology, philosophy, and social policy, and a Ph.D. in theology, September 28th, 2019, “The Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income”, Palgrave Macmillan, https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-030-23614-4.pdf?pdf=button, liam.
‘Basic Income’ A ‘Basic Income’—also sometimes known as a ‘Citizen’s Basic Income’, a ‘Citizen’s Income’ or a ‘Universal Basic Income’—is an unconditional and nonwithdrawable income paid to each individual by virtue of their legal residence in a country. ‘Nonwithdrawable’ is often included in the defnition to emphasise the fact that the Basic Income would not be withdrawn as other income rose: but strictly speaking the word is redundant because ‘unconditional’ implies that the income is not conditional on the level of other income, so it is by defnition nonwithdrawable as other income rises. A variety of assumptions are often made alongside the normal defnition: that the income will be paid regularly, either weekly or monthly; that it will not vary from payment to payment (although it might be uprated each year); that it will be paid in cash into a bank or similar account under the control of the individual to whom it is due; and that it will be permanent (Torry 2017).