Talk:Universal basic income pilots

Finland Basic income trial, 2017 - 2018
The trial as started was 2 years from Jan 2017 to Dec 2018 and is going ahead as planned until last payments in December 2018.

Results will be out late 2019 or early 2020 after follow up of participants and controls after the trial.

The trial duration was 2 years and not 3 as in Wikipedia page.

There was no early termination or lack of funds as the fake media has spread around the world from many news reports with just a couple that had the official Kela information. This repeated error is so prevalent because someone first made it and no one bothered to even check if there were English sources to check against. I have tried to indicate to the news sources they have an error but correcting old news is not often a priority.

There is a mainstream Yle news report of the Kela information as well that confirms the trial was not terminated and other report by the project organiser with further links


 * [Objectives and implementation of the Basic Income Experiment] from Kela
 * [Finland's basic income organisers correct inaccurate media reports of trial's premature death] from Yle
 * [Olli Kangas reveals the resistance to UBI] Thoughts by the project organiser with further links

Here is a list of news sites that write or imply that the program was underfunded, curtailed or otherwise limited in duration.


 * [... government has opted not to continue financing ...] it was not planning to so did not have to opt out
 * [title has ... It didn't work out ...] but quotes in the body "proceeding as planned,"
 * [title has ... killing its world-famous basic income experiment] and then has mostly correct details in the body
 * [... decided not to extend ...] there was no plan to extend it beyond the planned period, hopes yes but it had to end so results could be evaluated
 * [Thank goodness that this experiment is coming to an end...]

Idyllic press (talk) 02:48, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Updated Page on Finnish trial
Hi, I have updated some of the errors and links on the Finnish experiment in the Wikipedia page - thanks Idyllic press for the pointers Xcia0069 (talk) 11:07, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

Finnish trial has concluded
Results can be found here: https://www.kela.fi/web/en/news-archive/-/asset_publisher/lN08GY2nIrZo/content/results-of-the-basic-income-experiment-small-employment-effects-better-perceived-economic-security-and-mental-wellbeing Summary page with links to full results at the bottom (in Finnish)

--Ntv1000 (talk) 17:29, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Netherlands trial has concluded
Results can be found here: https://www.uu.nl/publicatie/eindrapport-weten-wat-werkt-samen-werken-aan-een-betere-bijstand Summary available in English, full results only in Dutch

--Ntv1000 (talk) 17:29, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Page Merger Needed
I believe this page should be scraped and merged into: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_around_the_world SimTheWorld (talk) 18:34, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
 * The other article is too long to merge this one into, and doesn't overlap enough. That one's mainly about political debates, and this one is about actual experimentation. -- Beland (talk) 22:46, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

A new crowd funded trial in Germany
There is a new privately funded trial proposed or started in Germany in August 2020.

Expected to last for 3 years.

Amount is EUR1200 per month.

To provide funds for 120 participants.

Control group to be 1380 participants.

Funding from 140'000 private donations.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/08/germany-universal-basic-income-trial-citizens/

Idyllic press (talk) 19:31, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Now UBI trial in England
New UBI trial in Wngland 148.252.129.33 (talk) 19:28, 8 June 2023 (UTC)