The unaffordable principle of universal welfare has been assailed with a means-test for child benefit.
But a means-test is no substitute for sorting out overlapping benefits and confining payments to people who are genuinely disabled.
Why not integrate them with Social Security and then means-test the benefits?
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Unfortunately, electoral considerations and the power of grey-haired voters suggest that this is the part of the Clinton budget that congressional Democrats will loudly applaud and which Republicans, though they are keener to means-test prescription drug benefits, will be reluctant to reject outright.
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MPs also backed ministers by 332 to 266 over plans to means-test the same allowance after 12 months, so people recovering from an illness or injury will be able to claim contributory ESA for one year rather than the two years proposed by peers.
The new budget request proposes to increase and means-test TRICARE premiums, nearly quadrupling them in some cases. (Today, TRICARE premiums are far lower than those for civilian insurance.) Some believe that the Obama Administration is seeking to drive more service members into the PPACA exchanges.
David Cameron was careful to say - in the advance text we've seen so far - that he'd keep his promise to pensioners not to means-test their benefits, but Iain Duncan Smith made it absolutely clear that that promise lasts just for this Parliament - in other words not for the period the speech is talking about.
Indeed, they are so obvious even the politicians are aware of what they are: turn Medicaid into block grants for states, reorganize Medicare as a subsidy for well-regulated private insurers along the lines of the Paul Ryan plan, raise the qualifying age for Medicare and Social Security and means-test the latter to return it to its roots as a cure for elderlass poverty instead of a checkbook-abusing free-for-all.
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Students are compared with a national sample, which means about 11% of kindergarten test-takers in the city received scores in the 99th percentile this year.
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The link-up means Redding and his new team-mate Mika Kallio have already been able to test next year's bike and in a sign of the team's respect for Redding he was involved in the process.
It means the 4-year-olds taking the test must be able to distinguish a striped hexagon from a striped octagon from another striped octagon whose stripes are in the opposite direction.
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Saturday's defeat in Pretoria means the Lions head to Johannesburg for the third Test with the hosts holding a decisive 2-0 lead in the series.
This is one of many bad incentives created by high-stakes testing, and by placing too much faith in the test as a means to improve outcomes.
"Running away from a popular test only means that some want to assume executive authority without a democratic mandate, " Issam al-Arian said.
Wood's inclusion means that over a third of England's starting line-up will get their first experience of playing a Test in Cardiff, with Ben Foden, Chris Ashton, Shontayne Hape, Ben Youngs and Dan Cole also new to the Millennium Stadium Test experience.
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He was by no means an automatic choice for the second Test at Edgbaston, but he bounced back with seven wickets and the man-of -the-match award.
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