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Finland is considering scrapping all welfare benefits and paying all Finns $10,000 a year, regardless of income, wealth or employment status, CNN has reported.

The Finnish government, elected earlier this year plans to introduce a tax-free monthly payment of 800 euros ($865) to all adult Finns.

The report said, ‘’The government thinks that the move will actually save money. Finland’s welfare system is very complex and expensive to run, and the government hopes that simplifying it could reduce costly bureaucracy. The payment would replace most other state benefits.’’

It also argues that the change may encourage more people to look for work. About 9.5 per cent of Finns are currently out of work, the highest rate in more than a decade, and the government believes some people are deterred from working because they are better off on unemployment benefit than accepting a minimum wage job.

The center-right coalition government, which was elected earlier this year, is planning to finalize the proposal in 2016 and run a pilot programme in 2017.

The agency in charge of welfare and national social security is currently designing the program. A trial period could see it make payments of 550 euros a month, while still offering some additional benefits such as housing support.

The government commissioned an opinion poll in September, which found that 69 per cent of Finns agree with the plan. It has not published estimates of the costs, and did not reply to CNNMoney’s request for comment.

Assuming every adult gets the payment, the programme could cost between 40 billion and 50 billion euros ($54 billion) a year.

The richest would pay most of their share back in taxes, the government said.

although, Finnish media, labor unions are opposed to the plan.




http://leadership.ng/news/482150/finland-give-every-adult-10000-annually

MYND44

And APC Governors planning to Reduce minimum wage of N18k ($74)

omo na to go do naturalization for finland be the thing o

Finland stole the plan from Nigeria!

Our government is also planning to pay us Five thousand Naira monthly

Finland is an industrialised country with an annual GDP of $270 billion, roughly half of Nigeria's. But she has a population of just 5.4 million people, so she can afford to pay $10k to the adults in the country.

Nigeria cannot afford to pay it's citizens 10000 dollars even in the next 1000 years

And you're saying I shouldn't become a Finn

Rossikk:
Finland is an industrialised country with an annual GDP of $270 billion, roughly half of Nigeria's. But she has a population of just 5.4 million people, so she can afford to pay $10k to the adults in the country.

ya, Norway has higher GDP per capita

difference between the whites i must say and the black nations...shey ona dey see the difference....

Tolexander:
Finland stole the plan from Nigeria!

Our government is also planning to pay us Five thousand Naira monthly

I dey Laff.

IzonOwei:
difference between the whites i must say and the black nations...shey ona dey see the difference....

I can't understand you. Are you telling me that all white man's land are paradise?

PhockPhockMan:
I can't understand you. Are you telling me that all white man's land are paradise?

almost my brother...how can a government take care of its own like this...it baffles me...here in africa we steal and dont give a shiit about the next person..our leaders steal from us and like zombies we vote for them again to expect nothing in return...kudos to african black leaders...

Comments are funny.

Summary is, black men are just....uhm uhm












Black men.











allow black men to head such a program, he will loot the money, abokii with such an agency will Carry it in cash and head to Sudan, where he will take off to Saudi, Sule Lamido style.



Isi ojii.

Time for Nigerians to start migrating to Finland. We no dey slack for this kind news.

Leopardd:
Comments are funny.

Summary is, black men are just....uhm uhm












Black men.











allow black men to head such a program, he will loot the money, abokii with such an agency will Carry it in cash and head to Sudan, where he will take off to Saudi, Sule Lamido style.



Isi ojii.

it's not all blacks that are corrupt, also not all whites are incorruptible.

Ah ah, me think say na naija sef! This my hangover d make me daydream. Make I go toilet jare.

IzonOwei:
almost my brother...how can a government take care of its own like this...it baffles me...here in africa we steal and dont give a shiit about the next person..our leaders steal from us and like zombies we vote for them again to expect nothing in return...kudos to african black leaders...

The blame lies with the PEOPLE of Africa, not ''the leaders''. It's the expectation of the families and friends of such leaders that their positions should automatically enrich them. The leaders try to meet those expectations in order to remain respected and 'relevant'.

There's a fundamental disconnect between the average African's substantial, inherited traditional mores and ethics on one hand, and the imported western administrative systems we practice, on the other. The former invokes allegiance. The latter, not so much. Until we bridge that gap somehow, and bring those two paradigms closer, we'll always have problems like corruption.

Beremx:
Time for Nigerians to start migrating to Finland. We no dey slack for this kind news.

Hmmmm.