Universal income and welfare dependency: opinion of the French in 2016| ��ƽ��

Do you think that the implementation of universal basic income could increase dependency on welfare?

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Release date

January 2017

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Region

France

Survey time period

January 18 - 20, 2016

Number of respondents

1,503 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Computer-assisted web interviews (CAWI)

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The question was posed by the source as follows: "You know that some people support the idea of creating a universal income in France. Each citizen, whether rich or poor, employed or not, would receive the same basic income throughout their life (which could be $750 per month). This basic income could be combined with salary or retirement pension but would replace certain social benefits such as the RSA. Implementing such a measure would cost $300 billion per year (the state budget being about $370 billion per year). For each of the following opinions that can be heard about this universal income, please indicate whether you completely agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, or completely disagree.
If it were implemented, the universal income would lead to the development of welfare dependency and devalue work since people could earn money without doing anything."

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Although ** percent of French people are in favor of implementing a universal income in their country, the topic is divisive. Indeed, some do not see only advantages in this system and particularly believe that it would be too costly for public authorities. Furthermore, nearly ** percent of French people think that a basic income could encourage dependency and erode the value of work in society.