Rejected petition Demand UBI so people can afford to stay at home during the Covid-19 pandemic

Demand that the UK Government sets up a Universal Basic Income (UBI) scheme as part of the emergency measures which would mean that people will be paid to stay home to enforce lockdown to help the situation.

More details

It’s all well and good extending SSP but this doesn’t help people who ARENT sick and then get placed in lockdown, or self employed businesses who have lost work or will lose money from being in lockdown, in a situation that no one could have prepared for.
That way, if people had a basic income to cover their household bills it would be easier for them to stay at home and lockdown imposed like it should be.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302284

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 15 March 2020
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.