Introducing a Universal Basic Income (UBI) in Finland is one of the strategic spear-head initiatives of the present Center-Right National Government of Prime Minister Juha Sipila. In the Government Programme UBI is seen as a measure to renew social benefits to be better adjusted to the changes in working life, increase the incentive to work and active participation, and to contribute to streamlining the whole benefit system, which now creates several income-, incentive and bureaucracy traps