Stupid Sanctions vs Basic Income 15: Youth Club Volunteer

There is a website called A Selection of Especially Stupid Benefit Sanctions filled with stories of ways in which our broken benefits system hurts people. I thought it would be good to compare what would have happened with welfare replaced by Basic Income Guarantee.

Of course its not terribly exciting because basic income doesn't judge people or make mistakes.

Our Current Welfare System	What if we had basic income?
You volunteer in a youth club. The job centre thinks this is ‘paid work’ so you are sanctioned.	You volunteer in a youth club and continue to receive basic income