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Finances · income security · shared growth · P—35
Universal Payment
and Shared Growth
Financial Policy · Version 1 · 7 September 2026
A complete policy architecture for serious investigation and staged testing. It is not a fully financed Bill, an official forecast or authority for immediate nationwide payment.
Read the publishing frame ↓Introduction for careful reading
Security without
abandonment.
This paper does not begin by asking which people or institutions can be discarded. It asks whether public money, accumulated returns and administrative work could be reorganised so that every person has a secure income floor while skilled people and essential services remain protected.
Its central proposal is a taxable lifetime Universal Payment of £3,000 gross per month, combined with a ring-fenced Shared Growth Fund receiving at least 75% of an independently calculated eligible return on covered savings. Savers keep legal ownership of their principal and their ordinary withdrawal and transfer rights.
The transition is framed around continuity. Professional care, treatment, childcare, disability support and other restricted service budgets remain separately funded. Administrative simplification is treated first as an opportunity to move capacity toward complex cases, accessibility, early help, care coordination, appeals, cyber resilience and public investment—not as permission to make people disappear from the calculation.
The boundary that matters
Change the route.
Protect the relationship.
The proposal distinguishes ordinary unrestricted personal cash from money that buys a professional service or meets a separate legal obligation. The economic purpose—not merely the payment route—decides what is incorporated and what continues.
Professional carers, commissioned care, care homes and supported living
Professional childcare, workplace support, disability equipment and adaptations
Private pensions, accrued occupational pensions and separate legal obligations
Savings principal, with the right to withdraw or transfer it
The unsolved part stays visible
A proposal to test.
Not a promise to rush.
These figures are policy-model sensitivities, not official forecasts. The paper says plainly that no complete financing schedule yet exists and that an immediate unfunded national launch is not responsibly forecastable.
Development record · four distinct files
See the policy
learning in public.
These Markdown files are not duplicates. Their different contents, sizes and cryptographic hashes preserve four stages of development. They sit beneath the finished policy as a transparent working trail, not as competing final editions.
Initial consolidated model
Establishes the lifetime payment, the first savings-return mechanism, a modular institutional structure and the scale of the unresolved funding gap.
Download the working record33 KB · Markdown↓Contribution and oversight refined
Adds the 75% public-floor and 25% regulated provider allowance, the Shared Growth Commission, public ledger and a clearer treatment of tax overlap.
Download the working record63 KB · Markdown↓Fiscal bridge and scenarios
Expands the model with an updated fiscal bridge and conditional ten-year paths, while keeping each scenario explicitly non-probabilistic.
Download the working record88 KB · Markdown↓Service continuity strengthened
Clarifies the boundary between unrestricted personal cash and protected professional services, and makes redeployment before redundancy a design condition.
Download the working record98 KB · Markdown↓Capability before redundancy
Simplification changes work.
It must not erase people.
The paper requires functions to be mapped before posts. It proposes transition designed with workers and unions, recognition of experience, funded training, reasonable adjustments, attention to caring and geographic constraints, transparent matching and an appeal route.
A move into useful work is recorded as service capacity—not falsely counted again as a payroll saving. Where a worker’s wage continues, the fiscal bridge records no cashable saving. This keeps financial accounting aligned with the lives it describes.
Publication is an invitation to examine the architecture, correct its assumptions and ask whether each stage preserves dignity, continuity and informed choice.