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The source adds the following information: "The Finnish basic income experiment was the first experiment in the world on this topic to be conducted on a national scale, statutorily and based on a randomized field trial. Participation in the experiment was not voluntary, which means it is possible to draw more reliable conclusions about the effects of the experiment than in other experiments based on voluntary participation. As part of this basic income experiment, 2,000 unemployed people received a tax-exempt monthly basic income of 560 euros, regardless of any other income they might have had or whether or not they actively sought work. The basic income recipients were selected by random sampling from those who, in November 2016, received unemployment benefits from Kela. The experiment began on January 1, 2017, and ended on December 31, 2018. The decision to conduct the experiment was made by the government of the then Prime Minister, Juha Sipilä. The objective was to study how it would be possible to reshape the Finnish social security system so that it better meets the challenges posed by changes in working life."