You need to subtract underage people (~1 million) from that 5.5 million (as well as non-citizens ~200k). I think some ~1.5 million people will also pay enough taxes to offset their own basic income (assuming the taxes will be set so that the average worker ends up with the same amount of money as they do now).<p>I&#x27;m not sure if Wikipedias numbers[1] are accurate, but they claim that social security already cost 57 billion in 2011 (of course not all of that would be replaced with the basic income).<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fi.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sosiaaliturva#Sosiaaliturvan_taso" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fi.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sosiaaliturva#Sosiaaliturvan_t...</a>