To establish a pilot program providing certain individuals with a guaranteed monthly income, to study the effect of a guaranteed monthly income on such individuals, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Creates a three-year pilot program to give guaranteed monthly cash payments to selected adults and study effects on economic, health, and social outcomes.
Who Benefits and How
Selected participants would receive monthly cash payments tied to local fair market rent, and the payments would be disregarded for many benefit determinations for 12 months.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Federal funding resources would pay for the pilot, and HHS, the IRS, and an external research partner would need to administer and evaluate it.
Key Provisions
- Creates a three-year guaranteed-income pilot with 20,000 participants, 10,000 of whom receive monthly cash payments tied to local two-bedroom fair market rent.
- Requires HHS, the IRS, and an external partner to study the pilot and report to Congress on economic, health, and social outcomes.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Creates a three-year pilot program to give guaranteed monthly cash payments to selected adults and study effects on economic, health, and social outcomes.
Key Policy Areas
Finance, Housing, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Creates a three-year pilot program to give guaranteed monthly cash payments to selected adults and study effects on economic, health, and social outcomes.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Participating eligible individuals receiving guaranteed monthly income
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Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Federal funding resources and administrators running and evaluating the pilot program
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Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMrs. Watson Coleman (for herself, Mrs. McIver, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Congress, Department of Health and Human Services, Internal Revenue Service
Eligible individuals aged 18-65 selected for guaranteed income payments, Eligible individuals receiving guaranteed income payments, Individual taxpayers aged 18-65
External research partner (academic/research institution), External research partner organizations, Non-partisan research agencies and non-profit academic institutions
Federal means-tested benefit programs (SNAP, Medicaid, SSI, housing assistance)
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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