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Universal basic services

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Universal Basic Services are provided on the basis that they are necessary to sustain and enable each citizen's material safety, opportunity to contribute, or participate in the decision-making processes of their community, region or country, even if they lack any financial income. The UBS model
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UBS may be an inefficient method to cover the personal and necessarily individual living costs associated with needs such as toiletries, requiring any UBS to be supplemented by some form of
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UBS are designed and delivered by governments and institutions which tailor the exact content of the services to meet the particular circumstances of the local community.
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Public housing are built to provide affordable or subsidized housing for lower income earners. This is inline with rationale behind the UBS, to sustain social inclusion.
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necessary to enable the individual's personal effort to use their skills and abilities to contribute to their society, either for remuneration or not
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The Legal category UBS is a broad definition to include safety services, legal assistance and the apparatus necessary to sustain the society's
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or credit system that can be used by citizens to satisfy personally specific living costs. This component could be delivered as a form of
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The cost of extending public services as universal entitlements is justified through some combination of the following savings:
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in which all citizens or residents of a community, region, or country receive unconditional access to a range of free, basic,
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estimate that approximately 40% of the total world population will lack access to affordable housing by 2030.
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reduced upward pressure on labour rates through the substitution of direct financial cost ("social wage")
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The following table represents rationales used for the inclusion of certain services in a UBS definition:
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The 2017 UCL report shows potential cost replacement of 80% of average pay for the lowest income decile
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welcomed the report and announced in 2018 that UBS would be incorporated into the party's platform.
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In the standardised definition of UBS the cost of the services is funded by revenues derived from
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necessary to allow the individual to participate in the political system(s) within which they live
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To substantiate inclusion in a UBS provision services meet at least one of these conditions:
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Further services, where there are low or zero marginal costs for adding further users are:
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increased flexibility through enhanced access to job opportunities (e.g. transport access)
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UBS can lead to lower emissions, particularly through greater use of public transport.
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UBS startup requires some increase in real costs that need to be financed before the
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model. The term appeared in 2017 in press and the first modelling in a report from
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Coote and Percy argue for the expansion of the Care service definition to include
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enhanced efficiency of delivery resulting from local design and demand management
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Most UBS services in societies around the world today are funded out of general
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available to the society and their political definitions of what constitutes
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long term savings in labour costs as UBS substitute for increases in pay
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increased productivity through greater support for deeper specialisation
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to include those elements necessary to fulfil a larger role in society.
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necessary to maintain the individual's or the society's material safety
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Services that support health, and services which provide for care of
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Local transport to access other services, shops and employment.
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The specific content of any set of UBS varies according to the
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Coote, Anna; Kasliwal, Pritika; Percy, Andrew (May 16, 2019).
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In October 2017 the Institute for Global Prosperity at
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produced a report modelling the cost of UBS for the
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Index

Universal basic income
social security
public services
public institution
welfare state
University College London (UCL)
British Labour Party
social safety net
resources
UBS Inclusion Rationale
public education
public healthcare

adding to it
Homeless shelter
Housing First
Public housing
Right to housing
UN-Habitat
Food bank
Food security
Human right to water and sanitation
Right to food
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Soup kitchen
disabled
elderly
Publicly funded health care
Right to health
Universal health care

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