The foundation for UBI is already in operation. See http://www.vivaco.in. The ICO was in May of this year, and was a success. It is being built already and is close to launch. When VIVA.cash launches, everyone will have access. I don't know exactly when it will launch, but I believe it is late this year or early next year.
IMHO, the last thing a UBI program needs is the government to operate it. This would, again, give more power to the government and less to the people. VIVA is giving the power back to the people, with many projects built upon a scalable block chain style ultraledger fabric - built by the people for the people.