Sentence examples for Means-tested payment from inspiring English sources

The Coalition would also impose tighter work tests to qualify for childcare benefits and would streamline multiple subsidies into one means-tested payment.

By 2025, almost two-thirds of pensioners will be eligible for this means-tested payment, which tops up the meagre basic state pension.

He made the remarks after setting out Labour's first plans for cuts to the welfare system, ending out-of-work benefits for 18-to-21-year-olds 18-to-21-year-olds 18-to-21-year-olds 18-to-21-year-olds 18-to-21-year-oldsining.

The EMA was a weekly means-tested payment of up to £30 for students aged 16-19, at schools or in further education colleges, in return for their attending lessons.

"When they left office, they had allowed means-tested payments to go so far up the income scale that nine out of 10 families – including MPs – were eligible.

But there's a problem: means-tested payments like these risk not getting to those who need them most, the result of perceived stigma and complicated administration.

Besides, if Mr Cameron's reassurances are worth anything, child benefit is safe, which only leaves means-tested payments, where cuts are guaranteed to increase child poverty.

He pointed to the cold weather payments (special one-off means-tested payments during a cold spell) and the pensioners' winter-fuel payments, which this government has maintained; the increase in the pension and falling energy prices.

Overall take-up of the means-tested child tax credit is around 82%, for working tax credit it is around 61%; but take-up of child benefit is around 98%. Universal child benefit has reached more low-income families than any of the means-tested payments specifically designed for them.

In criticising the 2012 budget, Abbott said Labor's plan "deliberately, coldly, calculatedly plays the class war card" by abandoning company tax cuts and replacing them with means-tested payments "because a drowning government has decided to portray the political contest in this country as billionaires versus battlers".

These were means-tested payments of between £10 and £30 per week intended to encourage 16- to 18-year-olds to stay in sixth forms and further education colleges.