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: --
abolish/end/abandon means-testing Ending means-testing would make the system easier to administer.
The government may introduce means-testing for eligibility for a state pension.
Powerfully, he asked the serious question: where are we going on means testing?
There is an almost visceral dislike of means testing among pensioners, which is entirely understandable.
The proposal would target some of the poorest of our pensioners without running into all the difficulties of means testing.
We will look at the issues of means testing, insurance benefits and categorical benefits within that context.
However, such concerns can be solved by the use of means testing and similar devices, which amounts to distributing the equity dividends to those whose circumstances most demand it.
Many of these individuals might not have saved much even in the absence of such wide-scale means testing.
An additional advantage of non-means-tested subsidies is that they avoid the transaction costs of means testing for both consumers and government.
However, means testing remains the condition for receiving income support and people owning property or savings will not be able to claim it.
