Yet any proposal to institute a means test is either ignored or howled down.
So any rationing of benefits by income would need to be based on something that looked a lot more like the traditional means test.
Would you be willing to means test Social Security or Medicare?
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The means test works by paying more to pensioners without savings.
He said also that during Gordon's Brown time at the Treasury, older Scots had to endure the indignity of a means test to get a decent pension.
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The law applied a "means test" to determine whether a person qualifies for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which erases debts, or Chapter 13, which establishes a payment system.
Rechristening the means test would not overcome Mr Field's objections.
Soon after he won power, Mr Blair decided to abolish the maintenance grants of university students throughout the United Kingdom, and to require many students (subject to a means test) to contribute to the cost of their tuition fees.
There was not a lot of money to go around so I tried to convince the student leaders the loan should be available only to those who really needed it and that we should have a means test to determine those who would qualify for the loan.
Consider these suggestions for improving our fiscal outlook: means test Social Security and Medicare, reduce the Pentagon budget by a fifth, end the War on Drugs, phase out agricultural subsidies, shrink the Department of Education, end the mortgage deduction for borrowing over a certain figure, reduce prison populations by relying on home incarceration and monitoring bracelets for many kinds of non-violent criminals.
The unaffordable principle of universal welfare has been assailed with a means-test for child benefit.
We discourage assumptions without the means to test or determine whether they bring real results.
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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The initiative is widely seen as a means to test the waters before mandatory standards having the force of law would be put forward.
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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But supporters of the treaty and the related British 2003 Act argue that the removal of the prima facie test simply means that suspects face the same broad test in each country.
England's humiliating loss within three days to Australia in the fourth Test in Leeds means they now go into the final Test, which begins on 20 August, needing to win to reclaim the Ashes.
Ensuring that bots are blocked means presenting a test that the software cannot complete.
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The discovery of a plant for making potentially weapons-usable uranium, dug secretly into a mountain on a military compound near the city of Qom, means that the test of their sincerity is Iran.
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As one factor among many, test scores can provide useful data, but as the primary means of evaluating teachers test scores are too unreliable.
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Now, in the latest round of missile launch, they also conducted a nuclear test, which means that there is a great possibility they will conduct a nuclear test.
"Running away from a popular test only means that some want to assume executive authority without a democratic mandate, " Issam al-Arian said.
Failure of a test usually means an instant short spell in jail, and it is hoped that such a dramatic sentence will shock people out of re-offending - thereby reducing long-term prison numbers and cutting off alcohol-related crime at the source.
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