0 the official process of measuring how much income a person has in order to decide if they should receive money from the government
1 the measuring of people's income in order to decide who gets money from the government for medical care, education, legal services, etc. or how much people get:
The government may introduce means-testing for eligibility for a state pension.
abolish/end/abandon means-testing Ending means-testing would make the system easier to administer.
All of this could be done electronically without the need for intrusive inquiries or overt means testing.
This programme provided needy disabled people with extremely low social assistance benefits on the basis of stringent means testing.
Private provision played an unusually large role, state spending was relatively low and means testing was important.
Secondly, means testing necessarily involves withdrawing benefits from those who have built up private pension rights.
The ' theoretical orientation ' of the book apparently means testing of hypotheses that have been advanced in previous research.
The approach has been to concentrate resources on the poor by means of greater selectivity and means testing.
The government ended universal programmes and imposed means testing in family allowances and old age security, with the same effect.
However, means testing remains the condition for receiving income support and people owning property or savings will not be able to claim it.
