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means test
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means test
a test involving the checking of a person's income to determine whether he qualifies for financial or social aid from a government


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Spokesman Eamon Timmins said: "If Minister O'Cuiv is proposing the introduction of means-testing for the Contributory State Pension, it would represent a major shifting of the goal posts by the Government for pensioners as they approach a time of their life which many have been planning for financially for many years.
Their spokesman, Nigel Waterson, said the government's refusal to tackle the means-testing issue had forced his party to abstain.
Shadow pensions secretary David Willetts said the Conservatives would increase the basic state pension in line with earnings rather than prices, as is currently the case, during their first term to reduce the number of people who fell into the means-testing net.
 
 
 
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