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Proposal to create a Community Allowance
The CREATE Consortium wants a change to the benefits system, to enable community organisations to pay people to do work that strengthens their neighbourhood without it affecting any of their benefits. The Community Allowance would help tackle the benefits trap and be a regeneration tool too.
The Consortium aims to run pilots in each English region, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. More at http://www.communityallowance.org, including a chance to back the idea. Note that the site requires cookies to work properly.
