None of us can fully comprehend what the permanent cessation of nuclear testing means.
Genetic testing means more women who may feel comfortable not taking the drug.
Birds Eye said they were introducing a "triple lock" DNA testing programme which means no minced beef product can reach the supermarket shelf without have been cleared at three stages of DNA testing.
And it would raise a question mark over the means testing of social care.
Such means testing of Medicare is fiercely opposed by liberal Democrats, who are in no rush for a deal.
What if we did means testing and reduced overall payments, based on income?
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He added the legislation would "allow state funded legal advice" to be available to people detained without means testing.
Finally, politics cannot fix Social Security by means testing it and making an already horrible deal for workers worse.
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John Swinbourne (SSCUP) asked the first minister to use his influence in Westminster to have means testing for pensioners abolished.
Other measures include making criminals pay the entire cost of their defence if they refuse to take part in means testing.
It is an increase in means testing and had led to a trebling of overpayments since the introduction of the new system.
"Means testing" has been part of Medicare since the George W. Bush administration, but ramping it up is bound to stir controversy.
Are we going to have means testing for everything? asked one wiseacre.
In December the department announced increases to the maximum amount parents may have to contribute towards their children's fees, which is decided by means testing.
Pairing such means testing with a simple voucher system for all seniors enrolled in Medicare could also help bring down federal spending and stoke competition.
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From 2014, the Department of Social Care will introduce means testing.
Despite austerity, the state pension has been bolstered, winter fuel payments are outside the reach of means testing, and free bus pass and TV licence retained for the elderly.
When we get done with Medicaid and Medicare the Republicans will proceed to impose means testing on and extending the eligibility age for Social Security retirement benefits.
The Conservatives say they would restore the link between state pension and earnings by replacing the New Deal - and so cut the need for means testing.
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Mr Yeare said the results of a Department of Social Care review into the extension of means testing in social policy would also need to be considered.
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Romney and Ryan have proposed means testing for these programs.
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The Conservatives pointed out that the part of her bill which allowed legal aid to be sought by domestic abuse victims without means testing could contravene human rights law.
Ryan includes extra assistance for lower income seniors empowering them with more choices, while means testing the assistance for higher income seniors like Medicare Parts B and D do today.
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Against that, it can be argued that it is only by providing a universal service that one obviates problems posed by those who are reluctant to claim and those who distrust means testing.
Rep. Boehner and other Republican leaders started telling Americans that the Republican party supports legislation to reduce retirement benefits by extending the retirement age for Social Security and utilizing means testing to further reduce benefits.
Note as well that the Ryan plan includes extra assistance for lower income seniors to protect them from any added costs, while means testing the assistance for higher income seniors like Medicare Parts B and D today.
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The government needs to get radical over a simple scheme for the future, matching savings pound for pound, introducing a liveable Citizens' Pension soon, and getting rid of all those civil servants who administer the means testing.
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By means testing, incentives are perverted.
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My thanks to both politicians for shedding some light on this disparity, although since none of us would choose to become victims of violence I still wonder whether all such compensation should be exempted from means testing, irrespective of its source.
The Shadow Chancellor George Osborne, was talking this morning that he kind of had inkling in the budget that the Chancellor was looking again at pension credits, which is the whole means testing issue, which was something I think you're not that keen on.
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