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In the socdem hell that is Finland this has been built to the states systems for a long time. We can get housing benefits as poors, but those will get cut based on family relations. A poor kid can't move in the same house with a parent no matter what age without these benefits being cut.
Students living at home also are punished for living at home by cutting student benefits, regardless of age and how poor the household is.
Every direction you look there are systems upon systems that maximize the carseral nature of poverty and poverty working as a trap. Including a tax on how much money one can gift to other people. And the poor who have to file for basic income need to present their bank statements and if a relative has helped them with more than 50โฌ/month that then gets deducted from the minimal living standard basic income they would get. Same as all side hustle money or tax return or other. So you will never have more than the lowest basic minimum a month no matter what you do. And even this can be cut if you refuse things like work rehab. The minimum basic income here is so low it has been flagged three years in a row by a human rights watch.
The other end of the spectum gets tax cuts for second houses for work, endless support to stay rich.
It's extremely efficiently built and multilayered and the best part is the state is able to frame it as good welfare. It's not, it's a maintenance of a slavery class, which many unemployed are. With 9โฌ/day, it's just called "work rehab".
I'm not entirely opposed to capping gifting, it's one of the ways the rich get around inheritance laws and such.
Over here, your welfare is dependent on your partner not earning too much. So, for disabled people you're at much higher risk of abuse being trapped in a relationship, have lower independence, and anyone entering a relationship with you has to take on a financial burden.
Yup same here on that too. Also spouses income impacts your rights. So a lot of domestic abuse or exploitation gets hidden when people (often women) have no personal income and are at home with a spouse who earns so much they don't qualify for the basic income to even theoretically fund getting away, not that it would be enough for that.