The Dutch city Utrecht takes a step closer towards paying people a salary whether they work or not by allowing small groups of benefit claimants to be paid €. 660 a month – and keep any earnings they make from work on top of that. Their monthly pay will not be checked. They will instead have the security of that income every month, and the option to decide whether they want to add to that by finding work.
The German magazine Der Spiegel is writing an article about this topic and needs research to be done.