Survey Questions Working Group #10 - Survey #2

Section 1 of 5:

Questionnaire: Basic Income-like measure in response to COVID-19

Questionnaire on financial measures either claimed as a Basic Income, or resembling a basic income, in response to COVID-19.

>>> Please complete the survey latest by Sunday, 20 September 2020. <<<

At the first Worldwide Meeting of UBI Advocates and UBI Networks, held on 7th of April, 2020, comprising members of BIEN and BIEN Social Outreach who were interested in advocacy, a proposal resolved to carry out a survey about the economic measures taken by different countries in response to the Coronavirus pandemic.

The survey team includes; Liz Fouksman, Reinhard Huss, Ali Mutlu Köylüoğlu, Julio Linares, Annie Miller, Sheila Regehr, Toni Pickard and Malcolm Torry. We thank others who contributed to this process.

This survey has three aims:

1) To discover how many jurisdictions/governments around the world, in response to the COVID- 19 pandemic, have claimed to have implemented a basic income, OR have implemented new measures that fulfill some characteristics and functions of a basic income, even if such new measures are not claimed to be basic income.

2) To explore and compare the social service context of each jurisdiction which has introduced a basic or partial-basic income scheme.

3) To find out more about the organizations whose remit is basic income only, and of those whose remit includes basic income among other ideas, and the extent to which these organizations work together.

This survey should be completed by an individual familiar with the defining characteristics of basic income on the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) website (basicincome.org/about-basic- income). You may be: - An office holder or another responsible member of an organization interested in basic income - A Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) member - An individual basic income advocate

Basic income Advocates and BIEN members are asked to invite their other basic income contacts, in countries where there are no BIEN members, to complete the questionnaire for that country or region.

Your personal contact information in Part 1 is optional, and will not be shared. It will only be used to contact you for clarification if need be. The published results of our analysis will be anonymized. On completion of the survey and our analysis, it is intended to deposit the dataset with a publicly accessible data archive, where it would be available for further analysis by other researchers.

Please complete Part 2 of this questionnaire for any new financial measure implemented in response to COVID-19 in your country/region that has been claimed to be a basic income. Alternatively, if no such measure exists, then complete it for any new financial measure in response to COVID-19 that appears similar to a basic income in some characteristics. Feel free to repeat the survey for multiple financial measures.

For any questions or concerns; ubicovidsurvey@gmail.com

Section 2 of 5:

Part One: Respondent's details

1.01 - Your country: (*)

1.02 - Your region (if applicable):

1.03 - Your name and surname (optional):

1.04 - Your e-mail address (optional):

1.05 - Are you a BIEN member?

• Yes

• No

1.06 - Are you a BIEN affiliated organisation member?

• Yes

• No

1.07 - If yes, please specify?

1.08 - If yes, your office/role within that organisation?

1.09 - Alternatively, are you a member of another basic income or allied organisation?

• Yes

• No

1.10 - If yes, please specify:

1.11 - If yes, your office/role within that organisation:

1.12 - Are you involved in any of the following (check as many as apply):

o Research/Academic

o Activism/Organizing

o Policy/Politics

o Other ....................

Section 3 of 5:

Part Two: Basic Income-like measures

The Basic Income Earth Network’s Definition of Basic Income

‘A basic income is a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual basis, without means-test or work requirement.

That is, basic income has the following five characteristics:

1. Periodic: it is paid at regular intervals (for example every month), not as a one-off grant.

2. Cash Payment: it is paid in an appropriate medium of exchange, allowing those who receive it to decide what they spend it on. It is not, therefore, paid either in kind (such as food or services) or in vouchers dedicated to a specific use.

3. Individual: it is paid on an individual basis – and not, for instance, to households.

4. Universal: it is paid to all, without means test.

5. Unconditional: it is paid without a requirement to work or to demonstrate willingness-to- work.'

2.01 - Name or definition of the new economic or financial measure responding to pandemic (which is either claimed to be a basic income by government, OR resembles basic income in some aspects of the definition):

2.02 - Jurisdiction responsible; National/federal:

2.03 - State/province/devolved nation:

2.04 - Objective of the measure:

2.05 - Has the new measure sparked broader media attention or other popular debates or calls for basic income?

• Yes

• No

• Other ....................

2.06 - Was it claimed as a basic income by a responsible member of government?

• Yes

• No

2.07 - If yes, please identify:

2.08 - To whom will the payment be made?

o Companies

o Citizens Only

o All Residents

2.09 - Date when implemented:

2.10 - Does the new economic measure fulfill BIEN's basic income characteristics?

2.11 - Is the measure periodic?

• Yes

• No

2.12 - What is its duration?

• Once-off

• Temporary – during /after Pandemic

• Permanent

2.13 - Frequency of payment:

• Once-off

• Weekly

• Monthly

2.14 - Is it a cash or digital payment?

• Yes

• No

2.15 - If yes, amount (for an individual, please state currency):

2.16 - Will this amount be at least at subsistence level, combined with the public welfare services available?

• Yes

• No

2.17 - Is it delivered on an individual basis?

• On an individual basis

• On the basis of a couple

• On the basis of all members of household

2.18 - Is it universal?

• Yes

• No

2.19 - If not, what are the eligibility criteria:

2.20 - Number of likely recipients:

2.21 - Number of likely recipients as percentage of population:

2.22 - Is the amount uniform (except by age)?

• Yes

• No

2.23 - If no, please specify:

2.24 - Is the measure unconditional on behaviour?

• Yes

• No

2.25 - If no, please specify:

2.26 - Funding source of the measure:

Yes No Taxation

Sovereign Welfare Fund

Borrowing

Increased money supply / quantitative easing

2.27 - Please expand on funding sources based on applicability:

What type of taxation?

Which sources?

Who is the money lender?

2.28 - Was the financial measure integrated or merged with existing state payments?

Yes No

State Pension

Child Benefit

Other

2.29 - Please expand:

2.30 - Have any financial benefits been withdrawn on the introduction of the financial measure?

• Yes

• No

2.31 - If yes, please explain:

2.32 - Has another financial measure been introduced in response to Covid-19 and welcomed as an improvement?

• Yes

• No

2.33 - If yes; please specify:

2.34 - Has this other measure sparked broader media attention or other popular debates or calls for basic income?

• Yes

• No

2.35 - Any additional details or explanations:

Section 4 of 5:

Part Three: Essential Universal Public Services

3.01 - What essential universal public services are provided, which are free at the point of use:

o Healthcare

o Education

o Housing

o Utilities (gas, electricity, water)

o Communications and information (telephone, internet access, data)

o Pubic transport/transit

o Other ....................

3.02 - Any further details or explanation:

Section 5 of 5:

Part Four: Basic Income organizations in your country

4.01 - Are there any single-issue basic income organizations in your country?

• Yes

• No

• Don’t Know

4.02 - If yes, please list name and website address:

4.03 - If more than one, are these single-issue basic income organizations working well together?

• Yes

• No

• Other ....................

4.04 - Are there any multiple-issue organizations which include basic income in their charter?

• Yes

• No

4.05 - If yes, please list name and website address:

4.06 - If more than one, are these multiple-issue organizations working well together?

• Yes

• No

• Other ....................

4.07 - Are there any study or research projects on the cost and impacts of basic income schemes in your country?

• Yes

• No

4.08 - If yes, please list any relevant papers or websites regarding this research:

4.09 - Do the basic income debates in your country engage with broader global debates?

• Yes

• No

4.10 - Please explain:

4.11 - Is anything else important happening in your country/region that you wish to tell us about?