He suggests means-testing beneficiaries and raising the early-retirement age of 62 by one month each year.
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She was in favour of means-testing - "putting that money to those who need it most".
The GOP has also signaled support for raising the Medicare eligibility age to 67 and means-testing Medicare benefits.
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But the government's overall approach is focused more on means-testing, rather than on checking people's ability to work.
The means-testing is based on factors including parental income and the number of other dependent children in the household.
Again, the more transparent and modern the state is, the easier it will be to talk about means-testing currently universal benefits.
By presenting clear evidence on the relentless spread of means-testing, the commission has been able to break this taboo as well.
He said means-testing the benefit would have been too bureaucratic and complicated.
Lord Turner insists that restoring the earnings link, despite its cost, is vital in order to arrest the spread of means-testing which discourages saving.
He also spoke of "entitlement reform, " but his only two concrete ideas were price controls on drug companies and more means-testing for affluent seniors.
Former Lib Dem care services minister Paul Burstow said existing means-testing arrangements were unduly "harsh" and the changes would provide greater "fairness and predictability".
CTC, unlike the universal child benefit, requires means-testing and that a million families who have failed to apply for the credit may therefore miss out.
He signaled he is open to means-testing Medicare benefits and changing the way the government calculates inflation, a step that would reduce Social Security benefits.
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Northern Ireland has a means-testing system similar to that in England.
Consideration is being given to freeing up more development land in the south of the island and tightening up on means-testing for council house tenants.
Changes to child benefit payments for the better-off - introducing means-testing for the previously universal benefit - come into effect at midnight on 7 January.
The charity has been calling for means-testing to be scrapped so that a universal system could be created, guaranteeing everyone a certain level of support if needed.
Other controversial ideas include means-testing disability benefits or domiciliary care.
The other is more means-testing of Social Security and Medicare.
The Ministry of Justice also announced new measures on Tuesday to clamp down on criminals hiding their assets to qualify for legal aid under the "Crown Court means-testing scheme".
It might be better to save money by directing disability benefits at disabled people, rather than means-testing payments to people who do not need them in the first place.
To determine this number, the same level of financial disclosure currently asked of financial-aid applicants will be asked of them, and a means-testing exercise will be used to determine capability.
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Mr Duncan Smith is understood to have initially resisted the latest proposal, arguing money should be found by means-testing benefits such as free bus passes and winter fuel payments for better-off pensioners.
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Mr Duncan Smith is understood to have initially resisted the welfare cuts proposal, arguing savings should be found by means-testing benefits such as free bus passes and winter fuel payments for better-off pensioners.
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That has opened the way to restoring the earnings link to the basic state pension, another no-go area for the chancellor, but an indispensable reform if means-testing is to be arrested and saving encouraged.
For example, the Senate's proposal to raise the age of eligibility and its version of means-testing for the elderly were in neither the House bill nor the recent budget agreement between Congress and the president.
Whether the budget is worse for poor people than for the better off is disputed, but Mr Osborne could have done more to counter the perception that it is for example, by means-testing benefits that go now to both.
And I say this as someone who is very much in favor of freeing up the healthcare market as it now exists, and who think Levin really does have a point when he argues for more means-testing of benefits.
"The current system is dogged by means-testing, a postcode lottery of charges, a rationing of services and poor standards and nothing in the plan looks like it will address any of these concerns, " its general secretary Dot Gibson said.
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