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2. Universal Credit - Wikipedia

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   Universal Credit logo. Universal Credit is a United Kingdom social security payment. It is means-tested and is replacing and combining six benefits, for working-age households with a low income: income-related Employment and Support Allowance, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, and Income Support; Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit; and Housing Benefit.

3. Guaranteed minimum income - Wikipedia

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   Guaranteed minimum income (GMI), also called minimum income (or mincome for short), is a social-welfare system that guarantees all citizens or families an income sufficient to live on, provided that certain eligibility conditions are met, typically: citizenship and that the person in question does not already receive a minimum level of income to live on.

4. Universal College Application - Wikipedia

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   The Universal College Application was created for use by any size or type of higher education institution. One intention of the Universal College Application is to save time and work for students by letting them submit the same application to any of the participating colleges. This is similar to the more popular Common Application, the ...

5. Universal basic income - Wikipedia

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   Universal basic income ( UBI) [note 1] is a social welfare proposal in which all citizens of a given population regularly receive a minimum income in the form of an unconditional transfer payment, i.e., without a means test or need to work. [2] [3] [4] In contrast a guaranteed minimum income is paid only to those who do not already receive an ...

6. Universal basic income in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Universal basic income and negative income tax, which is a related system, has been debated in the United States since the 1960s, and to a smaller extent also before that. During the 1960s and 1970s a number of experiments with negative income tax were conducted in United States and Canada .

7. Universal Service Fund - Wikipedia

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   The Universal Service Fund ( USF) is a system of telecommunications subsidies and fees managed by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) intended to promote universal access to telecommunications services in the United States. The FCC established the fund in 1997 in compliance with the Telecommunications Act of 1996.