 I&#x27;ve read about that before I think it was a good idea but maybe not perfect.<p>These days quite a few people work only to get on EI they use it as income then work under the table for cash.<p>If a guaranteed minimum income were to be the same amount as EI + cash that could work but there is no way to police under the table cash work.<p>One problem I can imagine is in some areas with really low cost of living there may be no incentive to work. You are thinking &quot;But how can someone live on (800 Euros) $1,173 month?&quot;. Quite a few people in the countryside of where I live will survive on $5,000 per year that&#x27;s $416 per month. They get their cheap beer or bootleg beer, bootleg cigarettes or buy it in bulk, grow a garden, fish and hunt. It&#x27;s a subsistence lifestyle many are used to living.