{"id":8359,"date":"2026-07-02T10:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/sejm-rejects-universal-basic-income-proposal\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:28:33","slug":"sejm-rejects-universal-basic-income-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/sejm-rejects-universal-basic-income-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sejm Rejects Universal Basic Income Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Polish Parliament has unanimously rejected a petition to introduce a Universal Basic Income of 2,403 PLN per citizen, confirming that current social programs like the 800 Plus benefit will remain unchanged.  <\/p>\n<h4>The Proposal for Universal Basic Income<\/h4>\n<p>A revolutionary petition reached the Sejm, proposing the implementation of a Universal Basic Income (UBI). Under this plan, every Polish resident over the age of three would have received a monthly payment of 2,403 PLN, an amount equivalent to half of the current gross minimum wage. The program was intended to be launched as a pilot scheme.<\/p>\n<h4>Ministry of Finance Analysis<\/h4>\n<p>The Ministry of Finance presented alarming calculations regarding the proposal. Even a scaled-down version providing 1,300 PLN to adults would cost approximately 40 billion PLN monthly, totaling 480 billion PLN annually. This expenditure would represent 12% of the national GDP and consume three-quarters of total state revenue.<\/p>\n<h4>Final Decision in Parliament<\/h4>\n<p>To fund such a program, the state would have been forced to eliminate the 800 Plus program, additional pension payments, and most social welfare benefits. Following this analysis, the Sejm Committee on Petitions unanimously rejected the proposal, ensuring the stability of current social support programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polish Parliament has unanimously rejected a petition to introduce a Universal Basic Income of 2,403 PLN per citizen, confirming that current social programs like the 800 Plus benefit will remain unchanged. The Proposal for Universal Basic Income A revolutionary petition reached the Sejm, proposing the implementation of a Universal Basic Income (UBI). Under this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}